On 2021-01-03 19:08, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:53, Boris Gimbarzevsky <bo...@summitclinic.com> > wrote: >> >> Ran into 68000 processor for >> first time in 1986 when my father bought a 512 K >> Mac and couldn't believe performance of this CPU > > It is odd. I had read of it, of course, but for me the revelation was > getting an Acorn Archimedes in 1989, with an 8MHz ARM2, and seeing it > blast past benchmarks of ~8MHz 68K machines such as the Amiga 500 or > Atari 512 ST. It was about 4x faster, I believe.
I guess we have to be careful, comparing machines & CPUs. 68000 came out as a CPU in 1980/1981 (available on the market (?)) You're comparing it to a ARM2 machine of 1987, where Motorola had the newer 68020, and 68030 by than ...
