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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Fast 68000s?
Message-ID: <2118@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 10:36:16 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.2118
Posted: Sat Oct 31 10:36:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 09:57:50 EST
References: <7487@dartvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
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Summary: 68000 should be phased out.

In article <7487@dartvax.UUCP> stevel@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Ligett) writes:
>Why are there no 68000s faster than 12.5 MHz?
>Is it a marketing decision, or an engineering
>one?  Does the 68HC000 use the same CMOS tech-
>nology as the 68020?
>
>I'd love to have a 20MHz 68000.
>

     I disagree.  I'd rather see the 68000 completely phased out
in favour of lower cost versions of the 68010, 68020 and 68030.
These are better processors and in the case of the 68010, pin
compatible.  Even so, I'd like to see register relative addressing
extended in futher 68K family product to range the full 32 bit
address range (I've heard the reasons against it and my answer
is simply that it's *still* a good idea).

     Price aside, the 68000 is a pointless anachronism.
Get rid of it!  Then again, the real point is regarding the
68010 -- Motorola, Hitachi, whomever else, Get the Price Down!

Cheers! -- Jim O.

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