Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Non Motorola 68k in 500/2000s ?
Keywords: 68k, A500/2000
Message-ID: <9863@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 18:12:54 GMT
References: <8368@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <8368@chaph.usc.edu> aliu@castor.usc.edu (Terminal Entry) writes:
>Hi...

>I heard a rumor on a local board today about A500/2000s not having motorola-
>made 68000 chips. 

Lots of companies make 68000s.  Commodore, like most vendors of 68000 machines,
uses a mix -- we've definitely used Motorola parts, definitely used others.
But don't get confused, there aren't compatibility problems.  These are real
second-source parts, made under agreements with Motorola, not something
reverse engineered and quasi-compatible.  It's a very common thing for a company
like Motorola to trade technology with other chip companys.  "You give me your
peripheral chips and I'll give you my CPU", that kind of thing.  

Absolutely nothing to fear.

Motorola has currently licensed the 68020 to several second sources, but
they're hanging on to the 68030. 


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