Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!willett!ForthNet
From: ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: forth eng./68hc11 new micros
Message-ID: <2941.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 30 Jun 91 20:11:59 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
Lines: 24

Category 9,  Topic 10
Message 83        Sun Jun 30, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 12:11 EDT
 
Hmmm.  As far as I know, the F68HC11 (a 68HC11 with Forth in ROM) is the
creation of New Micros, and so they are likely to be the exclusive source.  (I
have limited knowledge of how such affairs are handled, but I believe that
Motorola manufactures this part under contract to New Micros -- much like any
custom MPU -- and thus Motorola themselves have no license to sell this part.)

Your only other option is to buy a "vanilla" 68HC11 and put Forth in an
external ROM.  Last I heard (a few years ago), 68HC11s were selling for
something like $11 to $14.

- Brad
 Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
 B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | brad%candice@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
 "Shoes for industry!" | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca  (archaic)

-----
This message came from GEnie via willett.  You *cannot* reply to the author
using e-mail.  Please post a follow-up article, or use any instructions
the author may have included (USMail addresses, telephone #, etc.).
Report problems to: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us _or_ uunet!willett!dwp