out-of-mainstream minis
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Sat Jul 4 14:11:49 CDT 2015
> On Jul 3, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
>
> ...
> I find it hard to believe it was a plain 68K in there. That CPU have some serious issues that makes it close to impossible to implement virtual memory or proper usermode protection.
True, but Apollo did it anyway. I heard a rumor they used two 68k chips, one running one cycle behind the other. Don’t know if that’s true. Needless to say, as soon as the 68010 (or 68008?) showed up they switched.
paul
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