On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 15:35, emanuel stiebler <e...@e-bbes.com> wrote: > > 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 ...
That's a fair objection. :-) I suppose that the 68K only trickled down to the home/consumer market after about 5 years. The original Mac was circa $2.5K and the Lisa was around $10K -- *not* home computer prices for most people, even in the USA. The Sinclair QL was arguably the first affordable mass-market 68K box, and it used the somewhat crippled 68008 and 8-bit RAM to keep costs down. Before the Mac, I suppose that, as Cameron points out, the accurate comparison was with standalone multi-user machines such as the Sage and Alpha Micro. Desktop minicomputers, really. These were fading from the market when I started my first job in 1988. The only ones I personally worked on were Jarograte Sprite machines -- of which barely a trace remains on the WWW now, sadly. I'd like to know more about Jarogate and their products -- most of what I did was helping migrate stuff _off_ them onto either 386s running SCO Xenix, or small PC LANs. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
