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Re: motorola indeed..

1999-12-14 by Daniel Hansson

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, andrew sargeant wrote:

> >As far as I know, there's no Motorola in it... I'm quite sure a gate is not
> >possible otherwise I'm sure it would have been in it already.
> 
> Specs : (from the sidstation.com)
> 
> Motorola CPU 
> 
> Another article which claimed this chip to have the same cpu specs as a
> modern synth..
> which does DSP and analogue modelling! .. 

Uhm well, probably not. The processor in use in the SidStation is a
68HC11A1fn - a microcontroller running at 2MHz. All written in 100%
20.000+ lines or assembly language. Extremely efficient, but I'm afraid
there is no room for DSP or analogue modelling. :)

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