- There's a really good interview with one of the 68060 architects that posted recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1takr2k7Yfo just sit through the intro trust me it gets deeper than you'd think from the first impression.
Probably one of the better CPU interviews I've seen in recent times. He spills some interesting knowledge, the 68060 was a kind of serendipity for Mot that was otherwise winding up the 68k. It was partially acquired and acquihired from an external fabless design startup. Fills in some gaps as to why the CPU wasn't as well known as priors (obviously there were more choices by the time it came out). And a bit of tangents into Coldfire, ARM-M, and RISC-V.
by maximilianburke
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- I love retrocomputing but I never really understood running a modern OS on old hardware. I have System 7.5 on my LC575 and NeXTSTEP 3.3 on my turbo color slab; I could run NetBSD on both, but I could also do that on modern hardware with much better software support (and build times that wouldn't take an epoch).
It's cool, and I'll still support it, but I won't understand it :)
by ninefathom
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- Very interesting to see this pop up on HN just after I spent a few days making Alpine/m68k a thing.
(just a personal tinker project - don't look for it upstream any time soon unless I get extremely bored)
- I guess I could contact them to describe how to write an interrupt driven keyboard driver for the late model Macintosh machines. The documentation provided by Apple was incorrect.
- 68k outliving 486 support in the kernel will be hilarious
- Back in the day it would be great, but in current day, what could I possibly run on my 020 system that would make Linux preferable over the system's original OS and its dedicated (possibly FOSS) software?
- Not recommended for new designs.
by queenkjuul
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- Someday i hope to get Linux running on my Mac LCII... After i replace the power supply, and all the caps....
I was having fun building a custom distro for my 386 until the drive containing all the work died and coincidentally my backups had started failing without me noticing.
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