It was much later than XA, I think they probably couldn't get the license for 
the 64 bit implementation.  We installed a Hitachi Pilot CPU in 1999,  and 
after that they came out with the Skyline series of machines. 

Dana

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:27:15 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>
>Good question. I was told that the 3rd party CPU hardware parties quit when
>XA came out do to some change. But I don't know if it was licensing, or
>maybe some patent, or just too expensive in the R&D area.

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