On 20 Nov 2009 at 10:47, Brent Hilpert wrote:
  I believe this would be the first u-proc to take this
approach of
 creating a family by paring down a 'standard', that the PIC family and
 other u-controllers would later leverage. 
Did these precede the 6800 microcontrollers?  (e.g. 6801, 6803)?
--Chuck