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From: del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: MC6809 almost picked by IBM
Keywords: IBM PC, 6809 based PC
Message-ID: <1176@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 21:46:53 GMT
References: <392@aucis.UUCP>
Reply-To: del@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <392@aucis.UUCP> easton@aucis.UUCP (Jeff Easton) writes:
-true?  If so, why would IBM have picked the 8 bit 6809 over the 16 bit
-68000, which I belive was avaliable at roughly the same time?

Maybe for the same reason they picked the 8 bit 8088 over the 16 bit 8086?

-If true, just think of the possibilities, today we could have 33 Mhz CPU's
-(32 bit) that were object code compatible with the 6809.

You're kidding, right?  I mean, I don't see any smileys, but ...

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del (Erik Lindberg) 
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