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HP was a big Unix vendor, but they were also vendors of other OS such as DOMAIN, and HP kept the m68k alive right through the '040s with Apollo-derived workstat
by Eleison23 4y ago
HP was a big Unix vendor, but they were also vendors of other OS such as DOMAIN, and HP kept the m68k alive right through the '040s with Apollo-derived workstations that became part of the HP9000 line. DOMAIN/OS died out with PA-RISC and the 9000s segued into a new architecture, but not before cementing a legacy of a really well-done distributed network OS, a good way for college kids like me to learn assembly, and a cool OpenBSD platform for me in 1999.
- chasil 4y agoI actually traveled the country replacing TI DNOS machines (running on the 9900 CPU). The second phase of these replacements were with TI 1500 servers, running various 68k processors on nubus. https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipment/texas-instruments-system-1500 https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipme... We also should not forget the Sega Genesis.
- moosedev 4y ago> We also should not forget the Sega Genesis. Thank you - I forgot about the 68000-based consoles :) Ironic, given how many great articles about console architecture[0] have done the rounds recently! The Atari Jaguar and Sega Saturn also had 68000s among the many processors in their complex architecture, albeit explicitly as a sound coprocessor in the Saturn. Edit: I guess I didn't exactly forget - I was restricting my mental search to the 68030 specifically. But all the 680x0 systems were cool :) [0] e.g. https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis/ https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis...