68010 (was Re: Mac IIci)

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon Jan 14 00:24:32 2002

>
> --- 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
>

Apparently all the original Sun Microsystems Sun 1's were upgraded by
Sun with 68010's, and my Sun 1/100U's have 68010 of course. They
only made about 600 units of the Sun 1 series though, since they were
already developing the Sun 2 series at the time.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Mon Jan 14 2002 - 00:24:32 GMT