1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
8:07 a.m.
Am 1 Sep 2006 15:19 meinte Peter Turnbull:
Hans wrote:
Well, yes, you
got me nailed down there. I was only thinking
in the area of low volume embedded system - classic machinery
[ ... ]
> Would it be better phrased if I said: Pentums and alikes are
> by now the majority of new x86 based embedded systems? LOL! Yes, I couldn't fault you for that :-)
Tek scopes and ATMs come to mind, but there are others, I know.
It seams as if this also shows a migration trend, how certain
technology levels move into applications. While a Z80 (or other
8 Bit general purpose chips like 6800 or 6502) where desktop
CPUs in the late 70s, they became the choice for embedded systems
in the early 80s, then in the late 80s highly enhanced versions
(read wit lots of additional perhiperie) moved them into consumer
products and total volume markets. where they lived well until the
mid 90s. Similar 16 Bit 8088/86 CPUs moved in the Desktop in the
early 80s, moved into embedded in the late 80s, where 186 systems
where still big the late 90s ... to be replaced by 32 Bit Systems
like 386/sx/sl/486.
And now the Pentium does it.
Gruss
H.
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