Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Commodore finally went bankrupt, and were still making [...] ECS, 68000/7 computers
> when they did.
According to
Wikipedia, the production of the last ECS-based model (A600) ended mid-1993, so almost a year before the declaration of bankruptcy.
Which would leave the Motorola 68EC020 powered A1200 as the base model, when CBM went bankrupt.
A computer that CAN run Linux (which i'286 powered computers can NOT do).
That, btw, being one of my benchmarks for the value of a cpu.
Can it run UNIX derived or UNIX-like operating systems?
And while you can (sort of) torture that out of an i'286, it will do it REALLY poorly.
While ALL members of the 68K family WILL run that type of software (it just had MUCH better addressing modes).
SO, please don't point me toward Intel, as they were not a serious contender until the i386, and really it wasn't even that (or the i486) that got them on the map, it was the Pentium.
And THAT cpu I would acknowledge was the death knell for the 68K family (at least on the desktop).
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
