[6809] IMHO, THE BEST 8-bit micro ever developed. Pity Motorola
    fumbled and dropped the ball.

Well, they did the 68000 families as followons, since 8bit micros were
getting pretty un-sexy by then.  The 68k line was pretty successful and
well received, so I'm not sure it was THAT much of a fumble.

Extending 8 bit micros to ridiculous amounts of memory or into
microcontroller-like all-in-one chips is a pretty recent development, in
general...  (and motorola's 16bit embedded processors are nothing to
sneeze at, either.)

BillW

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