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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68xxx v.s. 80xxx    :-)
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 15:21:06 EDT
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> 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
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