Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances?? Message-ID: <1990Oct15.125628.15731@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 12:56:28 GMT References: <8139@scolex.sco.COM> <1990Oct13.035313.174@ingres.Ingres.COM> <1990Oct13.200414.3523@motaus.sps.mot.com> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 13 aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes: > I trust everyone knows about the twinned 68000s used in early Apollos? > One a cycle behind the other, so that it could pick up at a page fault? Isn't Apollo the company that designed a new machine around the 68000 architecture but wanted to ship before they could get quantity silicon so they designed and built their own 68k emulator and shipped boxes with that in it? Or something like that? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"