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

In article <MKAHN.92Jul30092618@hopi.sedona.intel.com> mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
>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.

They're called embedded controllers too, and in fact Intel refers to them as
such, also: embedded processor, microcontroller, and microprocessor.

Also, in current usage, the term refers to the core of any embedded
microprocessr-based device, such as a disk drive, motor controler, laser
printer, washing machine, transmission unit, network controller and so on.

>The 80960 is a RISC processor (less the MMU which seems to denote full
>microprocessor these days).

Its main purpose is to be used in high-performance embedded controllers.  That's
why it (and the 186 and 376) don't have the MMU.  That's also why it, and the
186 and 376, are detailed in the Embedded Controller Handbooks.