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You’re eliding the point by saying “680x0” The NextStation had a 68040 and it released in 1990. I didn’t say the entire 68k architecture my dude.
by pram 1y ago
You’re eliding the point by saying “680x0”
The NextStation had a 68040 and it released in 1990. I didn’t say the entire 68k architecture my dude.
- icedchai 1y ago68040’s weren’t really available in quantity when the IIfx was released. NextStations were closer to the end of 1990. Plus their 68040 Unix workstations felt DOA because all of NeXT’s competitors had moved to RISC. Sun had Sparc, DEC and SGI were on MIPS, IBM had POWER, HP had PA.
- pram 1y agoIndeed, im glad we can agree a UNIX workstation (as alluded to in the article) with a 68030 in 1990 was DOA
- icedchai 1y agoYeah. As a teenager with an A3000 in 1991, I still would've loved to run AMIX though! A couple years later I got a used 386SX and played around with early Linux distros.