Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 6809 greater than 2 Mhz
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.041321.26832@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1344@talc1.UUCP> <1351@hazel13.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 04:13:21 GMT

In article <1351@hazel13.UUCP> sirakide@cell.mot.COM (Dean Sirakides) writes:
>>Does anyone know if Motorola makes a 6809 with an operating frequency 
>>greater then 2Mhz?  
>
> Yes,     Motorola MC68A09 - 6 MHz
>  - or -  Motorola MC68B09 - 8 MHz

Uh, isn't this just a little bit of specsmanship?  The A and B variants
are more usually known as 1.5 MHz and 2 MHz respectively, since that's
the bus speed, the standard by which the earlier 6800-family machines
were measured.  He wants something faster than a B.
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