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From: tamir@ucbvax.ARPA (Yuval Tamir)
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Subject: two processors on a single chip
Message-ID: <1794@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 02:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 02:22:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Sep-84 02:38:44 EDT
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The January 84 issue of IEEE Spectrum contains a short
article about the current state of microprocessors (pages 50-52).
One of the chips they mention is a microcontroller from
Rockwell that can operate as two parallel processors.
The chip was introduced in June 83.
The chip is based on the 6502 architecture and was designed to
provide fast handling of asynchronous events.
It has one set of registers that are shared by both CPUs.

Has anybody seen the specs for this chip ?
What I really need is the Rockwell part number that
Spectrum was "kind" enough to omit from the article.

				Yuval Tamir

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