Mark.Johnson@metnet.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Johnson) (08/26/89)
According to Sam Tramiel, the 68020 was a mistake that Motorola corrected with the 68030. They will not be making a machine based on it but are working on a 68030 and researching a 68040. -- Mark Johnson - via FidoNet node 1:147/10 UUCP: ...!att!occrsh!uokmax!metnet!Mark.Johnson INTERNET: Mark.Johnson@metnet.FIDONET.ORG
greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) (08/31/89)
In article <64.24F67144@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> Mark.Johnson@metnet.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Johnson) writes: >According to Sam Tramiel, the 68020 was a mistake that Motorola >corrected with the 68030. They will not be making a machine based on it >but are working on a 68030 and researching a 68040. Tell that to Sun Microsystems, who have been selling Sun 3's based on the 68020 for years now, and getting 2+ MIPS out of them. (Of course, Sun uses their own, proprietary, MMU, but there's nothing wrong with that. The 68030 has an on-chip MMU that Sun is using in their 3/80 entry-level workstation; this workstation requires a different UNIX kernel than their 68020-bases machines, but is otherwise compatible with them. It remains to be seen how compatible the newest Atari products are with the current ST line. Greg Wageman DOMAIN: greg@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!greg 1601 Technology Drive BIX: gwage San Jose, CA 95110-1397 CIS: 74016,352 (408) 437-5198 GEnie: G.WAGEMAN ------------------ Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author.