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From: fred@mot.COM (Fred Brunner)
Subject: Re: What is the future of realtime and RISC?
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.225731.28399@cadsun.corp.mot.com>
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Organization: Motorola, Inc.
References:  <1991May15.210430.1134@nbc1.ge.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 22:57:31 GMT

In article <1991May15.210430.1134@nbc1.ge.com>, scott@nbc1.ge.com (Scott Barman) writes:
|> I have been looking into realtime for automation projects here and
|> learning a lot about the industry and what realtime really is.  But like
|> everything else, once the box is open the questions follow.  Before I
|> can even think about recomemending a system to use here I need to
|> consider the realtime world and RISC processors.
[...]

Just a quick observation, esp. wrt the comment about the 88K. EE Times
ran a cover story this week indicating that Motorola had been selected
by Ford to be the embedded controller of choice for the late 90's, using-
the 88K. Actually, something called the 88300 family, presumably similar
in integrated functionality to the 68300 CISC family. 

The party line from the beginning with this family was that it would be a
broad family of parts, able to be tailored to a wide range of applications,
since the design was compiled/modular, etc. Perhaps some of this is
beginning to bear fruit. 

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