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From: jcksnsr@nmt.edu (Jeffrey C. King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 680x0 are NOT obsolete (was Re: TT upgrades)
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.024811.3322@nmt.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 91 02:48:11 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.011111.14958@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>I started this mess, and I'm getting sorry for it.  But the point I wanted
>to make wasn't that NOBODY uses the 68k any more.  FEWER every year build
>COMPUTERS around them.  How much application software do you find for
>6809s?  There're tons of them in device controllers.  They're pretty good
>little 8-bit processors, but NOBODY builds computers around them.  If ONE
>vendor still did, would YOU be a developer for it?
>
  Perhpas I'm being snide here, but how many people are still developing 
computers around the 8088?  And if you were a developer, would you sell it?

  fact is, only one computer (including clones) is built around the 80x86
series (well maybe a few more SUN does make an intel based system (I believe))
while many are built arouond the  680X0 series (MAc, Amiga, Atari and most suns
  (NMT has several 68020 based SUNS and SUNS are not becoming obsolete...)

JEff