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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Why no VM on a 68K? (was: Re: Why 68000?)
Message-ID: <503@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 90 07:18:53 GMT
References: <1990Feb11.154304.19943@smsc.sony.com> <3919@hub.UUCP> <10223@hoptoad.uucp> <1990Feb15.155556.5319@uncecs.edu> <19472@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <22145@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Feb16.164414.6377@intercon.com>
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Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1990Feb16.164414.6377@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>Trivia quiz: anyone remember the 68012?

Yes, between their higher cost (more pins ment a different package style),
the much higher cost of memory in those days, and the brain-damaged MMUs
people were building then (24-bit or smaller virtual address spaces
mostly because of the high cost of SRAM) did them in.

	Paul


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