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		ekianjo on March 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microchips That Shook the World The 68 000 from Motorola was not "just" in the Amiga and the ST and the early Macs, it was also in the Megadrive, and in most of the early Sega Hardware in the arcades (Outrun and AfterBurner 2 had dual-CPU boards using 68000 in them). This chip was a wonder at that time.

mkempe on March 30, 2014 [–]

Fond memories! The 68k was also key to many embedded systems, such as laser printers, the Mars Pathfinder, and cruise missiles.

ekianjo on March 31, 2014 | [–]

Yeah, it even made it to the TI-92 calculator (a beast of a machine)

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