14 Jan
2002
14 Jan
'02
4:26 p.m.
--- Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
I do believe the main reason for the 68010's
appearance in what was
previously a number of 68000 applications was that it could support
virtual memory, while that was awkward on a 68K.
That's my recollection as well.
The early AT&T 7300's (?) which a number of my
friends bought, but I
didn't (don't ask me why),
We had a large 7300 club here - lots of Bell Labs guys bought them at
employee rates. We built a 70-computer UUCP phone tree for e-mail and
Usenet - fed in/out through AT&T (...!ihnp4!cbosgd..., later cbatt),
Ohio State (osu-cis and giza) and finally through MorningStar before
it went to PPP and the modern 'net.
used the 68010 even though they had rather limited
HDD
resources. It would have worked better with two drives, methinks.
I know that some model of UNIX PC had room for a full-height MFM drive
under a hump (most only had room for a half-height). It was too little,
too late, but you could drop a lot more than 40Mb inside - maybe 80Mb
or more! :-)
-ethan
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