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From: bryant@oakhill.UUCP (Bryant Wilder)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro,net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche
Message-ID: <745@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 01:43:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.745
Posted: Sun Aug 10 01:43:09 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Aug-86 04:35:11 EDT
References: <1040@ihwpt.UUCP> <580@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1050@ihwpt.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Xref: watmath net.micro.6809:941 net.micro:15318 net.micro.atari16:1587 net.micro.amiga:4277
Summary: why there are no memory page registers on the 6809

In article <1050@ihwpt.UUCP>, knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP writes:
> > If Motorola
> > had the forsight to add on-chip banking like in the 8088, the 6809 would
> > have had a good chance of catching on as THE 8/16 bit chip.
you are certainly very close to the truth if not right  on the mark.  if
you have further interest in some of the why this and that, i refer you to
a posting i did 10 to 14 days ago <737@oakhill> in net.arch
under the heading of Outside Influences on Chip Designs.  it will answer the
question and maybe some more.

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