Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: an amusing development
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.055824.18403@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 05:58:24 GMT

Remember the discussions about how the 8086 was "source compatible" with
the 8080?  Well, Motorola is following in Intel's wake:  its new 68HC16,
the 16-bit successor to its 8-bit line of microcontrollers, is "source
code compatible" with its predecessors.

I wonder if they got the parity bit right. :-)
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
