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Great article. The 68000 went on to become the first processor in Sun workstations and the original Macintosh so I wouldn't call it a total loser.
by dreamcompiler 9y ago
Great article. The 68000 went on to become the first processor in Sun workstations and the original Macintosh so I wouldn't call it a total loser.
- pmarreck 9y agoAlso the Amiga and the NeXT. All of the above were influential computers, and obviously the Mac achieved some success, so I think calling it an "also-ran" is a bit of a stretch.
- cmrdporcupine 9y agoAlso the Atari ST series, a whole wack of arcade games, the Sharp X68000, a bunch of Unix workstations, dedicated network hardware, etc. etc. And it is still manufactured in a modified form in the ColdFire. But it still never approached near the volume of sales of x86. And was abandoned by Motorola by the early 90s (when they started to go down the RISC road with the 88000 and then PowerPC)
- flavio81 9y agoSun, Apple Lisa, Apple Macintosh (& descendants), Atari ST series, Commodore Amiga Series... ... the Motorola 68000 was a very successful chip!!