Systems based on Fairchild 9440 / 9445

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.plus.com
Wed Nov 5 10:24:36 CST 2008


On 05/11/2008 16:05, Eric Smith wrote:
> bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>> That is why I said 68000 style of cpu.
> Other than the Freescale (Motorola) Coldfire series, and the Hitachi 
> HD63000 (which I'm not certain actually shipped), I can't think of any 
> CPUs that are "68000 style" but not actually members of the M68K family.
> 
> If you're talking about the PowerPC, that's certainly not "68000 style" 
> in any significant sense.  There's little similarity beyond both being 
> big-endian.

Aren't all proper processors big-endian?  :-)

(Well, apart from the 6502, of course, and, er, the VAX, and, well an 
ARM if configured the wrong way, and I suppose a PowerPC if configured 
bass-ackwards...)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York


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