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I presume that this 68000 machine was just a terminal that connected to a Unix mainframe via serial connection. In other words, it's just equivalent to an X wi

I presume that this 68000 machine was just a terminal that connected to a Unix mainframe via serial connection. In other words, it's just equivalent to an X window server. It's interesting. Even way back in 1982 when you ask the question "how can we use a GUI to make Unix better" the solution you come up with is essentially X11.

watmough 16y ago
In fact, the SUN-1 was 68000-based with a custom MMU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1 Though, I'd likely agree that UNIX probably wasn't that useful on these 680x0 workstations until the SUN 3/50, 68020 1 Meg RAM.