Systems based on Fairchild 9440 / 9445
Patrick Finnegan
pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Nov 5 14:16:53 CST 2008
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> 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? :-)
No.
;)
Pat
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