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> Why on earth choose 68k Well, it was a good choice, because it made them money for that product line. So they must have known something (or gotten really luc
by parker_mountain 4y ago
> Why on earth choose 68k
Well, it was a good choice, because it made them money for that product line. So they must have known something (or gotten really lucky)
Like I said, existing 68k applications and userbase were a huge draw. Using existing development work to establish a product line. Time tested embedded designs over the newer and less long-lived SPARC.
These were never supposed to be cutting edge - that's a feature, not a bug, sometimes.
- chasil 4y agoRealistically, ARM-1 tapped out on April 26th, 1995, just as Olivetti was buying Acorn. This was a year before MIPS and SPARC if I am reading the dates right. T.I. could have acquired the ARM processor. They likely would have killed it. At 25k transistors, a UNIX machine based on it would have been far more profitable than 68k. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/acorn/microarchitectures/arm1 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/acorn/microarchitectures/arm1
- lproven 4y agoYou don't have your dates right. You are a decade too late. 1985, not 1995. Also, once again, it is TAPED out, not "tapped" out. I am guessing you are not a native English speaker; these two words have different meanings and pronunciations. Taped: /teɪpt/ -- rhymes with "aped" or "shaped". Tapped: /tæpt/ -- rhymes with "apt" or "clapped". The way to remember this is that the double consonant (here, -pp-) "insulates" the vowel before it from being lengthened or changed by the "-e" after it. Examples: kit → kitten, bit → bitten, flat → flattened, net → netted. Same vowel sound in all these pairs. Compare with: kit/kite, bit/bite, bat/bate, sat/sate, not/note. All these pairs have different vowel sounds because the E after the consonant changes the vowel before the consonant.