[rescue] Question: VME SBC on EBay

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Tim H. wrote:

> Really?  I didn't realize they were not well thought of.  I haven't done
> any serious work with controllers, and I learned on 8085 and 8051 in
> college, so I kind of assumed they were a popular series.  What does
> make up the bigest family of embedded stuff? 68000 relatives?

Z80 derivatives are way up there.  They don't exist so much as independant
chips, but as VHDL cores that can be plugged into just about anything.
The combination of easy to code for assembly, minimal royalties and small
implementation size make them easy choices.

-James [and LDIR was cool for an 8-bit!]