Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:22:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: terry@lambert.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How long is long? Message-ID: <199511270123.RAA19621@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951126165536.436A-100000@localhost> from "Jake Hamby" at Nov 26, 95 05:00:38 pm
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> Yup. I almost forgot to mention that Motorola also made the "68008" > which was a 68000 with an 8-bit data bus, so people could adapt their 8 > bit designs to the 68000-series! Explain that bit of brain damage! :-) > We use dthe 68008 because it was easier to program the 68000 family than the 8 bit processors.. the speed of the processor or whether the device was 10% slower here or there didn't matter... having a single ram and rom chip(each) rather than two of each for the board, simplified the board layout considerably.. and yet we got to use the real nice (more-or-less) orthogonal 68000 intruction set rather than the 6800 or z80 set.. it wasn't to allow people to adapt their existing designs.. the timing was sufficiently differnt but it was GREAT for small embedded apps..
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