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
Network Manager
University of York
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