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From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
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Date: Sun, 9-Aug-87 00:36:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  9 00:36:31 1987
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In article <174200061@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> german@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>IBM has used the 68000 in some products.  The one the comes to mind is the IBM
>Instruments CS9000.  It was a pretty nice system for some laboratory 
>applications.


IBM also used a slightly modified version of the 68000 to build a "370 on a
chip"  I recall that this was done about 1980, using two 68000's with
modified instruction sets.  I'm not sure if this ever made it to a product,
but I read about it in Electronics or Electronics Design, or a similar
mag.



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