Originally posted by danboid
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Anyway, the fact that the m68k architecture continues to thrive in virtual form to this day, supporting almost 4GB of RAM(!!!) and having first class support in Linux, really speaks for the amazing forward compatibility that the 68000 was endowed with when it was initially designed and developed. If only IBM had gone with the 68000 CPU in the original IBM PC design, instead of the 8088, the PC platform would have been so much nicer, with much smoother generational upgrades.
Maybe if Motorola had released the low cost 68008 variant a few years earlier. Alas.
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