Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k Subject: Re: 68xxx v.s. 80xxx :-) Message-ID: <6022@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 15:21:06 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.6022 Posted: Fri Oct 4 15:21:06 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 15:21:06 EDT References: <370@wlbr.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 > Intel puts a divide-by-N counter for the main clock on their micro chips. > Not for marketing reasons, you understand. But in hindsight, it's clever. > Motorola doesn't.... > HEY MOTOROLA! The path to riches is obvious! Put a divider in the "68020A" > so that the outside clock frequency will be 500MHz! Or make it a hybrid > with a 100GHz clock! Actually, in a BYTE article on the 6809 some years ago, its designers said something like: We thought about putting a few divider stages on the clock inputs so we could win the highest-clock-speed race, but we decided that system designers wouldn't appreciate having to put a tuned cavity on their boards for the clock oscillator... -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry