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I searched for this luna88k and was taken to a Wikipedia page that I read until I realized it was for a computer called LUNA but it had a 68k processor. The re
by jrumbut 4y ago
I searched for this luna88k and was taken to a Wikipedia page that I read until I realized it was for a computer called LUNA but it had a 68k processor.
The reason it came up was a tiny quote from the NetBSD announcement of Luna 68k support which mentions its "rare cousin" the 88k LUNA.
Now that's niche!
- reaperducer 4y agoI thought I knew a lot about 68k processors, but "88k" is new to me. It turns out to be the Motorola 88100¹, which was used in Unisys servers running Unix. ¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88100
- kalleboo 4y agoI only know about the 88k since Apple prototyped using it for their first RISC Mac back in the day before pushing for the PowerPC alliance
- cafard 4y agoData General built a machine called the Aviion with the 88K.
- johndoe0815 4y agoMotorola had a lot of VME bus boards with 88100/88110 CPUs. There's still a web site dedicated to the 88k CPUs at http://www.m88k.com http://www.m88k.com Fun fact - the 88k was designed by Mitch Alsup, who also designed SPARC CPUs for Ross, x86s for AMD and others. He is retired, but still active in the comp.arch Usenet newsgroup.
- SoftTalker 4y agoAlso a good example of what I understand the OpenBSD development goals to be: developers work on the features and hardware support that interest them. It isn't a popularity contest; targeting the most popular platforms or growing the number of users of OpenBSD is not a project goal. So as long as there are developers who want to do the work to support the 88k LUNA (whatever it is) then it will happen. More specifically: https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html