6 Jun
1998
6 Jun
'98
7:14 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
> There
> was a UNIX box, made by Perkin-Elmer that had two 68000 processors...
Actually, I believe it was the original Sun 1 which
used the double
68000s.
Really... The old P-E did, too, IRRC.
Perkin-Elmer did make a 68000 Unix box, the 7350. It
actually could run
three diffent OS's:
Personal IRIX
Uniplus System 3
MicroXelos (Uniplus-derived SVR2)
Interestingly, the MicroXelos kernel was smart enough to know about the
68010. If you installed one in a 7350, it would use different trap
handling code.
Cool. I have a 7350 (with the touch buttons on the bottom edge of the
monitor) running Uniplus SIII. I have original docs and install media,
too. A former employer used it for C-> 68K ASM conversion for a never-
released WAN router (c. 1984) I have the original WAN router OS and
the (small) pile of prototype 68K-based router boxes (68K, 68451, with
4 proprietary slots with either 4 DMA-SIO or 8 PIO-SIO, for the non-
TLA-impared). If they had ever _released_ a product, it might have
amounted to something. We used the Z8530 SIO, one of the coolest
UARTs ever made (as seen on the Mac and Sun). We used to ship a
68K-based intellegent SIO card for VAXen that spoke HASP, 3780 and
SNA, for $25000! Those were the days.
-ethan