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

[aankrom]

I keep the 68000 (68000F8 I think...) from my Amiga 500 as a token of 
my love of that machine. It's a BIG mother!

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:01:11 +1030, Matthew Smith wrote:
> 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.)