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To: Dr.Deth

6809


79 posted on 11/20/2015 11:25:48 PM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: DigitalVideoDude
> 6809

My favorite processor of all time. Wrote tons of code for that CPU.

After I got a real assembler, I got a copy of Hendrick's Small-C Compiler and wrote a replacement back-end code generator for the 6809 instruction set, bootstrapped it so that the compiler ran native on the 6809, grafted a floating point package onto it, and used it to write the application software for a DSP-based spacecraft attitude control system. If Motorola had manufactured the 6809 with radiation-hard silicon, that code would have flown; as it was it was relegated to ground-based prototypes and test systems. But it worked great.

Fun times, before the IBM-PC and the 8086 ate everybody's lunch. :-)

87 posted on 11/21/2015 8:30:37 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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