1 Aug
2021
1 Aug
'21
11:51 a.m.
On Aug 1, 2021, at 2:45 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2021-08-01 12:32 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Apollo built a workstation company around the 68000. That was hairy because that chip
doesn't handle page faults right. I think they used two of them, running in lock step
one cycle apart so the one behind could be used to save state at a paging exception and
allow it to be restored.
In the 68010 that design oversight was fixed and page faults became properly restartable.
paul
Would the 68K have succeeded if it were not for
Apple and Commodore?
--Chuck
I suspect if they had the proper virtual memory, it would have been
picked
up as a Unix cpu, instead. It is the only common non segemented 16 bit cpu I can think in
that time frame.