mk59200@korppi.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi) (06/27/90)
[The fist try seemed to disappear in a black hole. Hope this comes throgh] In article <26865F6C.8175@paris.ics.uci.edu> rbarris@ics.uci.edu (Robert Charles Barris) writes: >That is correct, Motorola started it. The Hitachi part in question is the H8, >an 8-bit microcontroller not used in any product sold in the US. Apparently >it was too close a knockoff of the 6800 (not 68000) and that's what got >Motorola bugged. I'm currently working on a design based on a H8 family chip, the H8/532. It certainly isn't a knockoff of the 6800, it's closer to the 68K but it has 16-bit architechture. It actually is a lot like PDP-11. I think the patent disputes are about implementation details that aren't directly visible to users, perhaps microcode. -- Markku Kolkka mk59200@tut.fi