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Re:The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up by jejones3141 on Saturday April 11, 2015 @11:53AM (#9359690)
>What is an interesting mental exercise is imagining what would have happened if the 6502 or 6809 architectures had expanded and done well.

It was, but for some reason Hitachi didn't publicize it, and word only escaped years too late: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_6309

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Re:The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up by cmrdporcupine on Saturday April 11, 2015 @10:08PM (#9361777)
Yep I have some here, and there's even a board for putting it and the 6809 into Atari 8-bit computers (!). It's a fine processor, but limited to 64k address space still. But fast, and fun to play with.
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