From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:44 AM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Subject: Re: 6809 SBC
On 30 Jan 2010 at 20:27, Henk Gooijen wrote:
True! Just trying to combine hobbies. However,
for something
completely different, the main screen software in my StarShip uses the
6809 :-) to plot lines (Bresenham algorithm) and arcs/circles, but
that would go OT.
Was the 6809 all that wonderful for the time? Consider that the
NS32016 was just starting to show up around 1980. Far more advanced
architecture. If it wasn't for NS's attention-deficit-disorder, it
might have found its way into many more systems.
I've got an NS32CG16 (32016 with graphics extensions) that's waiting
for a "sometime" SBC project.
If the National CPU had received more attention back then, it might have
been a lot more successful. Perhaps the absence of software and developers
for it contributed to that. It would have helped if the popular magazines
like
Byte etc. had written more interesting articles. I know that some Oc?
copiers
had some National chips (32xxx, really can't remember) working as pixel
processors for the generation of the bitmap. Never worked on that part of
the machines though, always worked on the real-time control software.
- Henk.