Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!gp.govt.nz!zl2tnm!don From: don@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances?? Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 12:50:43 GMT References: <1990Oct13.200414.3523@motaus.sps.mot.com> Organization: Me? Organised? Lines: 16 phil@motaus.sps.mot.com (Phil Brownfield) writes: > The MC68000 supports a 16MB linear address map. It has 8 32-bit > address registers (as well as 8 32-bit data registers), and all > address calculations are 32-bit precision. It was introduced in > 1979. It is generally conceded that the 8Mhz MC68000, which went > into production in '81, is around 0.8 VUPS. - It had no MMU. - It was a processor, not a system. Serious 68000 based systems were quite a while coming, and weren't cheap. Don Stokes, ZL2TNM / / Home: don@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office Work: don@gp.govt.nz __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand_____or:_PSI%(5301)47000028::DON