Mike McMullin wrote:
You can toss this into the pile as well. My 8 year old CNC machine runs on an equivalent 486 processor (the Motorola variant). I don't see machine tool manufacturers and their Controller design staff needing 64bit cpu's on the machines.
There's still a lot of 8 bit and even 4 bit code around in embedded devices. Someone building a custom chip can choose from a wide variety of CPU architectures, from a logic library and add in memory, I/O etc., to get the optimum combination of CPU power, chip real estate etc. in one package. So, in a modern device, there could be an Intel 4040 at the core, so long as it meets the overall design requirements. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org