From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Why did Motorola fail?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:24:39 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808101722170.19950@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180810022310.GE4245@eureka.lemis.com>
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Forty years ago Motorola 680x0 CPUs powered most good Unix boxen, with
> the exception of this upstart SPARC thing. And then they were gone. I'm
> trying to remember why. Can anybody help me? I recall claims that Moto
> didn't put enough effort into development, but was this primarily a
> technical or a commercial issue?
Well, having Microsoft supporting Intel wouldn't've helped...
-- Dave
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-10 2:23 grog
2018-08-10 2:55 ` stewart
2018-08-10 6:00 ` arno.griffioen
2018-08-10 7:24 ` dave [this message]
2018-08-10 7:44 ` bakul
2018-08-10 13:40 ` clemc
2018-08-10 14:43 ` lm
2018-08-10 15:13 ` clemc
2018-08-10 15:45 ` lm
2018-08-10 15:53 ` [COFF] Why did Motorola fail? (Cost and performance) david
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