HP 9000/226

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed Aug 8 14:47:56 2001

John Honniball skrev:

>On 7 Aug 2001 23:50:1 +0100 Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
>wrote:
>> It's funny, but all other 68000 MPUs I've seen have been either Hitachi or
>> "ST" (?) models. Or plastic PLCC models.

>ST = SGS-Thomson Microelectronics: http://www.st.com

>The same French/Italian company that bought INMOS and the
>transputer. They now build the ST6 range of
>microcontrollers, and the CPU chip used in the Dreamcast,
>amongst many others.

I thought the Dreamcast used a Hitachi.
I didn't know Thomson owned INMOS and Mostek, either.

>They also bought Mostek (not MOS Technologies), builder of
>the NVRAM chips used in Sun workstations as real-time clock
>chips. And now suffering from dead batteries.

Well, yes, we've been through that. =)

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