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There’s (sadly) not that much 68k left these days, is there? Do you know of any specific companies still using them? (maybe ones that are hiring? :)
by wk_end 7y ago
There’s (sadly) not that much 68k left these days, is there? Do you know of any specific companies still using them? (maybe ones that are hiring? :)
- wolfgke 7y agoIn terms of hardware: NXP ColdFire.
- zozbot234 7y agoThe Apollo Vampire is a newly-designed implementation on FPGA's that compares very favorably wrt. performance with existing 68k (and ColdFire) hardware.
- kn0where 7y agoI think either Airbus or Boeing (or both?) use them in some of their planes (A320 and/or 737)
- p_l 7y agoAST2500 (popular as BMC chip) has ColdFire coprocessor, TALOS2 and Blackbird (truly open source POWER9 workstations) use it (used?) to bit bang one of the protocols necessary to start up the CPUs
- t0mas88 7y agoI wrote a lot of code for it 12 years ago in embedded programming. It was already getting less popular back then so I guess you're right. Haven't seen one in forever.