chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) (12/29/83)
> ... He is a devoted Motorola fan and claims >they buy far have the best support chips (Memory Management, >Communications, ...). He also feels the Motorola will in the >future and has in the past offer much better support than >NS or Intel. best support chips are in Motorola? what about the brain-damaged MMU for the 68000 system? when was the last time you saw a well paged 68000 system? what about 68000 floating point? ... and so on ... it seems to me that one of the few things the 68000 had over the NS16032 was that the 68000 came out first. this "blessing" has turned out to be a curse because Motorola released the chip far too early and far too untested. besides, what kind of support would allow a chip to go through QA that pushed the SP rather than the PC on a subroutine call? chongo <who me, biased?> /\16/\