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They did, but DEC already had MIPS/Ultrix workstations on the market that beat the living daylights out of any 68k machine. ARM-1 tapped out in 1985. No excuse
by chasil 4y ago
They did, but DEC already had MIPS/Ultrix workstations on the market that beat the living daylights out of any 68k machine.
ARM-1 tapped out in 1985. No excuse really.
- Taniwha 4y agoMIPS showed up in '85 but by then there were dozens of 68k based unix boxes in the field (I worked for UniSoft, we did over 100 68k unix ports, including the lisa and the mac 2. Back in the mid-80s CISC was still a real thing, intel hadn't really embraced 32-bits yet, if you wanted a unix microprocessor you went for a motorola 68k or nat semi 32k (there were a couple of others with a lot fewer design wins) - at the time every man and his dog seemed to be building a 68k based unix box in his or her garage - we had people come from Yugoslavia, one group Sweden bought a 1st class seat for their wire-wrapped prototype ....
- chasil 4y agoTI S 1500 68k machines came out in 1986. These followed the TI 1300 386 Xenix machine. Steve Jobs would have used them to buy ARM... or not, as NeXT was also 68k. I guess nobody saw what was going to happen. https://www.home.unix-ag.org/engel/ti/s1500general.html https://www.home.unix-ag.org/engel/ti/s1500general.html
- lproven 4y agoTaped out? (Meaning the circuit design was stable.) "Tapped out" means "surrendered, gave in, indicated that the fight was finished."