On Wed, 7 May 2014, Justin Richards wrote: > On 6 May 2014 19:46, smplx wrote: > >> A long time ago I had to write a report justifying the use of a 68020 >> based machine against a much cheaper 80286 PC. The 68020 machine cost >> several times as much as the 80286. The 80286 actually executed the >> benchmarks almost twice as fast as the 68020. This had to be left out of >> the report. Needless to say I found a new respect for Intel that day and >> learned the hard way that it's not the number of registers or fancy >> addressing modes you have but how you do the basics :-) >> > So which processor was chosen, the fast cheap Intel or slow expensive > Motorola. Hint "it had to be left out of the report" :-) Like many other companies it was driven by marketing and I was just an=20 engineer. I didn't design the system, I was just saddled with it. The=20 crazy thing was, the customer had already bought the system and we were=20 already well on our way to shipping it. To me it just seemed like a time=20 wasting exercise. Regards Sergio Masci --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .