Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 26th Mar 2008 22:02 UTC
Motorola split into two groups today in order to save their falling mobile business, but the real kicker is an insider's email that Engadget published. It has it all, from suicides to golf scores and how all that brought a giant down. Good afternoon reading, albeit sad. Update: My personal rant/editorial on the situation, describing the failure of Motorola to understand the importance of their EZX Linux-based phones and how this drove their business down.
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Long live Motorola. When I first started programming, the first assembly languages I learned were for Motorola processors -- 6811 and 68k, and since then I've learned it for many other processors, including PowerPC. 68k will always hold a special place for me, with a very nice and clean instruction set, and clean chip engineering, it's the nicest CISC ISA ever designed, and PowerPC (AIM alliance) is the nicest RISC ISA that I've ever worked with.
I also remember ordering engineering samples of motorola's processors, from the cheapest through more expensive, and they wouldn't give a second thought, just sent me chips. That and free documentation was a godsend to me, being a hobbyist engineer back in high school. It's hard to find that these days anywhere you go. Sure, online, but it's hard to get the dead tree edition, which is a necessity when doing this kind of work.
So I repeat: Long Live Motorola -- in my mind at least.