14 Jan
2002
14 Jan
'02
3:09 p.m.
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.
The early AT&T 7300's (?) which a number of my friends bought, but I didn't
(don't ask me why), used the 68010 even though they had rather limited HDD
resources. It would have worked better with two drives, methinks.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: 68010 (was Re: Mac IIci)
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
Also Torch XXX, some Suns, some HP9000 series, etc... They're not that
rare in my experience...
-tony