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From: Quadibloc
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 04:53

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On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 3:43:06 PM UTC-7, Peter Flass wrote:

> OT, but are there any reasonably current systems that use any variant of
> the 680x0? I know Freescale makes the chips, minus memory management, for
> embedded uses. Was the Mac the last user-level system that used these
> chips?

Pretty much, but the TI-92 calculator with symbolic algebra, and the Palm Pilot, 
also used 680x0 chips, and at least the former outlived the Mac.

John Savard

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