Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Joys of Motorola Date: 13 Jan 2025 23:46:37 GMT Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <2e17ec15-582f-5a71-84e5-d4d490274270@example.net> <7454fa51-3534-2584-2197-90613efb2091@example.net> <5EOdnU9Sj5_aSBn6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net +S76s3y8mVDoT1cCvLo+WwRdo5MKozv3Gp4aGwvM/3TAnRU+sh Cancel-Lock: sha1:u5YONAdgP2BP4z2VigW8KZvNGIQ= sha256:sG4c29+VMMDR4d7v4qP5U67mRnFyKnKEQke6hVQQZ84= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64326 On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:56:38 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 1/12/25 7:19 PM, rbowman wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:40:46 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote: >> >>> I think it was 1981 that Motorola announced the LANCE chip, which made >>> Ethernet practical. Lots of companies designed products around it, but >>> in the end it was 2 years late to ship production quantities. >> >> The early '80s were insane. Companies were quoting delivery dates out a >> year or more. If you could dangle a high volume order you might get >> better treatment but the company I was with didn't operate on that >> scale. The 8751 would have been a better choice but we could get 8749s. > > > Motorola made GOOD chips for a span. > > The 6809/68000s were GREAT. > > A lot of their peripherial chips were GREAT too. > > They were a real player. > > But SOMETHING went wrong ... price/volume/quality as time went on. > > NOT such an unusual story alas. > > SO many chip lines FAILED ... and not always for lack of merit. There are a lot of twists in Motorola's story. When FreeScale was spun off it went back to the roots in the automotive industry. Palm used the DragonBall but that dried up.The FreeScale got bought. Somehow they blew phones and other consumer products. What became Motorola Solutions still is the 500 pound gorilla in the public safety sector, at least as far as hardware. There are several challengers for the computer aided dispatch software.