--- Eric Chomko <pne.chomko_at_verizon.net> wrote:
> Yes, and the 80186 -- 68010.
> Both existed but were not popular in many systems. Both equally
> quite rare in that regard.
I suppose the 68000 and 68020 were bigger sellers than the 68010, but
they were a favorite "upgrade" for the Amiga 1000 owner who wanted
to squeeze another 3% out of their box ("loop mode" one-instruction
cache accounted for most of that). They appeared in early UNIX
workstations (NCR Tower, perhaps?) because they could reasonably
handle demand-paged virtual memory (much cleaner than some of the
schemes for the 68000 itself).
I've always liked the 68010. Got a few, 'cause we put them into the
final rev of COMBOARD, the VAXBI COMBOARD.
-ethan
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Received on Sun Jan 13 2002 - 23:35:57 GMT