Systems based on Fairchild 9440 / 9445

[Rich Alderson]

> From: bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:56 PM

> Brent Hilpert wrote:

>> I haven't looked into it in depth but it has been a point of interest to me
>> as to how Fairchild fell from grace in the 1980s: failing to produce a
>> strong contender in the microproc arena?, betting the farm on the wrong
>> technology (high-performance bipolar/I3L instead of CMOS?, too focussed on
>> the high-end military market?, too much brain drain to other companies? ...

>> The counterpoint is how Motorola has managed to adapt and stay on the
>> forefront of technology since it's inception producing car radios in the
>> 1920's.

> but since MAC no longers use a 68000 style cpu, you just have NO-Comment cpu
> clones for buggy computer designs.

It's been longer since Macs used 68K processors than the amount of time that
they did (1984-1995 vs. 1995-2008).


Rich Alderson
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