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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
Message-ID: <982@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 03:17:28 GMT
References: <5946@venera.isi.edu> <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1876@looking.UUCP> <3407@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <3407@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
<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?

And the 6809 is in *heavy* use. The Radio Shack Color Computer *still*
uses it and people do quite a bit with. Especially those running multi-tasking
software under OS-9...

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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."