64 bit linux on Intel T9600

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:13:10PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>   
>> lots of misc other ancient things (80xx, 63xx, ...)
>>     
>
> Some of those are pretty old and small, although still in use in some
> cases.
>
>   
One thing to bear in mind, is that many of those ancient CPUs live on in
logic libraries.  This lets a chip maker select the best CPU for the
task, add in some I/O & memory, to produce the optimum chip for an
embedded task.  No need for a 32 or 64 bit CPU, when 4 or 8 bits will do.


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