[Coco] [OFF] Hitachi MB-6890 information needed

[Ronivon Costa]

Would it make any difference at all?


On 22 April 2014 13:12, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> I'm sure Hitachi would indeed claim that the features were found by hackers
> and not leaked by any employee, in order to avoid any disputes with
> Motorola.
>
> Art
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > You are right Art, here is a link to the original English translation of
> > the article by Hirotsugu Kakugawa, but it also states that even Hitachi
> > admits that some hackers found the secret features of the chip.
> > >From this document, our current tables and charts of the 6309 were
> > spawned.
> >
> > ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/INFO/6309memo.txt
> >
> >
> > Bill Pierce
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 3:25 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] [OFF] Hitachi MB-6890 information needed
> >
> >
> > I think a more accurate history is that there was a Japanese magazine
> > article about the 6309's extra registers and other features, which got a
> > great deal more attention a couple of years after it was published when
> > someone translated it into English and it became available online.  The
> > article contained very great and accurate detail about the 6309, which to
> > my mind makes it implausible that it was simply the product of someone's
> > experimentation and detective work.  I strongly suspect that the
> > information was leaked by someone at Hitachi.  I'm sure the Hitachi brass
> > were terribly upset about that.  (Oh, no!  Now people will realize that
> the
> > 6309 is more powerful than the 6809, and we'll probably sell way more of
> > them than we expected.  Dang it all!!)
> >
> > Art
> >
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