10 Aug
2018
10 Aug
'18
1:24 p.m.
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