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   From: LyricalNanoha@dosius.net   
      
   On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 puritan_2076@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > What about the 6800/09? It was at least technicly superior to many   
   > other chips available at the time, and just as good as the rest. Why   
   > was it so rarely used? I've noticed many early 680x computers used the   
   > realitively poor 6847's b&w predecessor. did that have something to do   
   > with it? or was ti just too expensive? or too late?   
      
   Can't blame the 6809s alone.  Commodore made a clone of the 6845, called   
   the 6545, and used it in the later PET/CBMs (4032, 8032, etc.)   
      
   -uso.   
      
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