Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!decvax.dec.com!zinn!eci!morwyn!forrie From: forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 3B1 Rising Popularity Message-ID: <42@morwyn.UUCP> Date: 25 Jan 91 17:16:04 GMT References: <1699@madnix.UUCP> Organization: CREATIVE CONNECTIONS - Dover, NH - USA Lines: 28 | Of course, if the 7300/3B1 wasn't an orphan, it wouldn't | necessarily be low-priced. Are there *any* 68010-based Unix | systems still in production? | | I once asked the net why people didn't make little | daughter-boards to replace a 68000 with a 68010+MMU, and use them | to make useable computers out of all those cheap 68000 boxes. | People kept saying "why not just use a 68030 instead?" Fine, if | you've got money to burn, but some of us don't... Yes it would be NICE if someone could figure out a way to use the 68030 on the UNIX-PC... believe me, it would be incredible. But unfortunately, I think it's impossible at this point. As doing such would require all new hardware (mostly) AND I believe a new KERNEL --- who's gonna write it? Because of different address space, and all that complicated stuff. BUT if someone DOES it, let ME know! :-) Forrie -- --------------------=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-------------------- Forrest Aldrich, Jr.| ...uunet!zinn!eci!morwyn!forrie |forrie@morywn.UUCP | | CREATIVE CONNECTIONS| ...uunet!unhd!unhtel!morwyn!forrie |Graphic Illustration ------------------\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/------------------ \____ PO Box 1541 - Dover, NH 03820 ___/