That was so Motorola could squeeze it into a 0.6" 48 pin DIP. The original IBM PC was based on the 8088, a similarly hobbled version of the 8086.
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Dotdot. Who's there? Yet another IoT app layer
Friday 6th January 2017 09:40 GMT
Re: Zigwhat?
This is not the stack, it is the application layer. It can run on a ZigBee stack, Thread stack, virtually anything. The value is in defining the attributes, commands and device interactions relevant to applications. This takes years to develop and ZigBee have been doing this for years so it makes sense to take that knowledge and package it in a way that makes it suitable to run over any network.