From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux on 16-bit processors
Date: 19 Mar 2003 09:36:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5a9r4$ekf$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1048084009.30751.23.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
Followup to: <1048084009.30751.23.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> BTW are "real" 16bit processors actually cheaper any more ? 16bit keeps
> costs down but several 683xx processors seem to use 16bit external
> data bus as do some ARM.
>
80186 seems to be going strong, still; and EZ80 is available as a
synthesizable core (basically a Z80 with a 24-bit addressing mode and
a very primitime MMU.)
-hpa
--
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-19 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-18 23:46 Linux on 16-bit processors micklweiss
2003-03-18 23:58 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-03-19 0:27 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-03-19 8:35 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 14:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-19 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-19 7:25 Greg Ungerer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='b5a9r4$ekf$1@cesium.transmeta.com' \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.