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From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/12
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devuns@sd.aonix.REMOVETHIS.com (Olivier Devuns) writes:

> I think "dragonball" is the MC68328, i.e a 68EC000 core with
> on-chip peripherals including LCD drivers, etc. Coldfire is a wholly
> different beast which I would describe as a "RISCified" 68k. 

My mistake regarding the Coldfire stuff then, but it's a DragonBall in
my palm and it's a modified gcc 68k cross-compiler that's used to
build apps on Unix for it.

Chris
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