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Transplanting the Mac’s Central Processor: Gary Davidian and His 68000 Emulator
- PaulHoule 6y agoI am most interested in the death of the 68k. It seemed the low end chips didn't really beat the 6502. Some Sun workstations had real MMU capability and a real OS but the cost was enough that migration from the cheap chips to the high end was slow -- Mac and Amiga did not cross the bridge to 32-bit OS in that world. Apple, Sun, and everyone else who used the 68k jumped ship.
- brudgers 6y agoThe 68000 (and 68010) hit a sweet spot. They were really good 16bit chips because they offered some of the benefits of 32bit computing. But by the late 80's clones created economies of scale and Intel's cross licensing meant there were cheaper chips from AMD and Cyrix. And then FPU's went on-chip and the Motorolla road map probably didn't foresee that until the wagon was well up a box canyon.