29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
6:13 a.m.
It's also worth noting that the thing does not
appear in the 1981
Motorola Microprocessor Databook. So it's obvious that Motorola did
not consider it to be a microprocessor. (duh!)
My experience, however, is that manufacturers didn't always put chips in
the 'obvious' databooks, possibly make customers buy several books to get
all the data sheets they needed. IIRC, my Motoroal 8-bit microiprocessor
databook (some years later than that) doesn't include things like the
6803 or 6805, there was a sepatate 'microcontrolelr' databook I think.
Perhaps the most annoyine one is that the Intel microprocessor and
peripherals databook in the early 1990s didn't include the 8250 or 8251 (it
did include the 8253, 8255, etc). There was a 'communciatons' databook
that inlcuded thye seiral chips.
-tony