hergieburbur
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Motorola's chips still see a lot of usage. Texas Instruments uses MC68000 chips in its TI-89, 92, 92+, and Voyage 200 graphing calculators. (They use Zilog Z80s in their other models.) I have a Voyage 200 and it seems to perform pretty decently at finding iterative solutions for having a 12MHz chip and 384KB RAM in it.
Yeah, the Motorola's are good general use chips for applianes and such. I did some progreamming on the Motorola68HC11/12 in School, and they have a nice instruction set, nice flexibility, and are cheap for thoser types of apps.