6 Aug
2006
6 Aug
'06
9:24 p.m.
I never did benchmark the 68881. IIRC, the 68K was a
big deal in the fab
business. I think it used the then-very-new 3 micron technology. My
biggest disappointment was that the CPU instructions weren't resumable
after a fault--i.e. with those 24 bits of address, there was no possibility
of virtual memory implementation.
Well, Motorola felt your pain...
I liked the 68000, but for some reason I initial thought it was just a
bit too complex, and thus sluggish. Maybe when the 68020 came out I
was more impressed.
--
Will, who has actually touched a 68012