'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

[Jerry Feldman]

No, I was talking about 8 bit chips. The Motorola 68000 was an excellent 
chip. Its registers were a full 32 bits. It had a good instruction set. The 
datapath was only 16 bits.
Most of the workstation companies used the 68010 because of its onboard 
memory management module needed for multi-tasking/multi-user systems. I 
worked for 2 companies that used it in their workstations, Raytheon Data 
Systems, which could never get anything out the door, and Cadmus Computer. 
Cadmus developed several things. We had a version of NFS (before Sun) that 
was tightly integrated into the kernel using the Ethernet protocol. Another 
thing they developed was a Macintosh like window system that they sold to 
Apple before they went out of business.
The Atari XT and the Commodore Amiga were 68000 boxes.  
"Tom Buskey" wrote:

> There was also the m68000 (unless you meant the 68000 when you wrote
> 6800 above).  The Macintoshes started on them (with 128k of RAM!).  Sun,
> Apollo, HP, and others based thier workstations on them.  There's some
> rumors that IBM considered it for the PC but rejected it because
> Motorola was the only source.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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