Motorola has an embedded processor division. These people make things like the 68340 which is a 68030 with lots of other stuff (serial ports, etc) on the chip. Last I looked they had changed the core processor they use for embedded devices to the PowerPC. So, with a little bit of digging I bet you will discover that Motorola ships a PowerPC based chip that is low power, high performance, and has a lot of support on-chip (probably bus, DMA, serial and other controllers.) These are highly custom, but they often have stock chips for customers to work with before the decide how they want to customize the silicon... so prices shouldn't be that unreasonable on the stock chips. Jay On 12.1.98 12:08 AM, Legacy 'Xunker' said: >Greg Teiber wrote: > >> Sorry I didn't say this before.... But the 68000 chip. At 8mhz can run a >windowing OS and speeds that you would not believe. (go find someone wiht >a Mac plus runnins system 6.0.8 for a demo) And the chip has more than >acceptable math capabilitys, or you could put a math co into the system. >Also the 68000 will support 16 megs of ram. The biggest fault wiht the >68000 is the lack of the MMU. But that can be coded around. Well enough >of my spewing about the 68000.......... > >Motorola is, lets be honest, the absolute Gods of the FPU.. My power book >1400 at 183mhz has over 3 times the FPU performance of my desktop Cyrix >Pr200. > >The problem with chips like the 68000, unless some company decides to make >a mobile version, aren't we outta luck? Although I do think an '030 or >'040 running MacBSD could be a pretty kickin' system. > >-- >Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of >"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to>Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org > -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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