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• Z8000 First! (Score:1)

  by n1vux (1492)

  Moto 68k systems were awesome. The 68k built the Mac and the Sun empires. And lots of me-too systems that everyone's forgotten. For lazy folks who didn't like segment registers, they were simple to deal with. Those of us who thought operating system should reject writes to the wrong parts of memory always thought flat address spaces were a problem. History has alas proved us right far too late.

  But ... back in the day, the 68000 was a me-too chip, just http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/bagontheside.html [perl.org]"h

  --
  Bill
  # I had a sig when sigs were cool
  use Sig;
  • Re:Z8000 First! (Score:1)

    by scrottie (4167) <scott@slowass.net> on 2006.05.03 20:37 (#47567) Homepage Journal

    Holy cow!
    
    Thanks very much, Bill, for contributing this -- complete with references. Of course, a whole article could be written on Xenux, but I'm not qualified, and Wikipedia probably already has it ;)
    
    Cheers,
    -scott

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