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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
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Date: 29 Jul 88 14:51:44 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> The 6809 isn't much in use today, but it's descendants, namely the
> 68000 family, are a very strong force in microcomputers.

	I remember when I first saw a 6809 data sheet.  "Wow, this is a
really neat chip" was my first impression.  Mostly a souped-up 6800, but
with a second stack pointer, double-length registers, and some 16-bit add
and subtract instructions.  What more could you want out of a micro?
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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"The connector is the network"