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markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:


] In article <1992Jul24.051517.177756@zeus.calpoly.edu> mneideng@thidwick.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark Neidengard) writes:
]
] The entire embedded controller series: 8051/8096/80960.  The last two are
] highly orthogonalized and have plenty of RISC design features in them, the
] first had many RISC features designed in it before RISC was even a word.
]

Semantic police here: The 80960 is an *embedded microprocessor*.
Embedded controllers are typically used for electromechanical 
control and/or have a slew of peripherals on board. The 80960 is
a RISC processor (less the MMU which seems to denote full
microprocessor these days).

IMHO of course.

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