[sdiy] 25 chips that shock the world! Your top game changers?

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Thomas Strathmann at 04/03/12 23:31...
> On 03.03.12 12:22, Doug Terrebonne wrote:
>>>  From: Magnus Danielson<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
>>>
>>>  The first Ethernet chips and the 68000  (or what variant) that powered
>>>  the original Cisco router where the  game-changers.
>>
>>  And a little computer called the Macintosh... :)
>
> And the Amiga, the Atari ST with its MIDI ports and didn't the Waldorf
> Wave among others have a 68k on board? The 68k family sure powered a lot
> of the wonderful and important devices.

68000 - isn't that what evolved into what is now the Coldfire series? 
(And one wonders whether Coldfire devices couldn't be made to "pretend" 
to be 68000s, possibly with aid of a QFP to DIP adapter.)


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