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In article <560@halley.UUCP> rrt@halley.UUCP (Robert Teisberg) writes:
>>_Byte_ magazine ran a three-part article on the design of the 6809,
>>and they say that it used random logic.  Written by Terry Ritter and
>>Joel Boney of Moto, it appeared in Jan/Feb/Mar 1979, and it is very
>>good reading.

The only thing I specifically remember from those articles was their
comment about clock speed:  [roughly] "We thought about putting a few
divider stages on the clock input so we could claim victory in the
clock-speed race, but we decided that the users wouldn't appreciate
having to include a tuned cavity as part of the clock oscillator..."
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