Post by thread:[OT]: Blast from the past (6809)

[6809] IMHO, THE BEST 8-bit micro ever developed. Pity Motorola fumbled and dropped the ball. Well, they did the 68000 families as followons, since 8bit micros were getting pretty un-sexy by then. The 68k line was pretty successful and well received, so I'm not sure it was THAT much of a fumble. Extending 8 bit micros to ridiculous amounts of memory or into microcontroller-like all-in-one chips is a pretty recent development, in general... (and motorola's 16bit embedded processors are nothing to sneeze at, either.) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.