[ILUG] [OT] old sun arch's, (was RE: unixless chips?)

Jakma, Paul Paul.Jakma at compaq.com
Thu Nov 11 17:06:21 GMT 1999


>  He meant the 68xx and 65xx's - which certainly were 8bit chips. 68xxx
> were all 32bit chips, with 16bit databuses on the 68000 and 
> 68010's..the
> first Sun Unix boxes[0] were based on 68000's, with a 
> Sun-designed MMU,
> so I suppose it must be possible :)
> 
> Kate
> 
> [0] Sun Ireland 

I presume you mean the first boxes sold, or were they designed/made by Sun
Ireland? :)

What type of machines did Sun have before the 68k ones? (sun3 architecture
init?) Was there a sun2 or a sun1?

regards,

Paul Jakma.




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