14 Jan
2002
14 Jan
'02
12:24 a.m.
--- Eric Chomko <pne.chomko(a)verizon.net> wrote:
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
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