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Re:OpenBSD 7.2 by reaperducer on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:19AM (#33276061)
I thought I knew a lot about 68k processors, but "88k" is new to me. It turns out to be the Motorola 88100¹, which was used in Unisys servers running Unix.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88100

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Re:OpenBSD 7.2 by kalleboo on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:38AM (#33276352)
I only know about the 88k since Apple prototyped using it for their first RISC Mac back in the day before pushing for the PowerPC alliance
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Re:OpenBSD 7.2 by lukeh on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:10PM (#33278479)
NeXT as well I believe!
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Re:OpenBSD 7.2 by jkepler on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:55PM (#33281341)
M'y physics prof loved his NeXT machine back in the day.
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Re:OpenBSD 7.2 by cafard on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:52AM (#33276552)
Data General built a machine called the Aviion with the 88K.
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Re:OpenBSD 7.2 by johndoe0815 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:50PM (#33280511)
Motorola had a lot of VME bus boards with 88100/88110 CPUs. There's still a web site dedicated to the 88k CPUs at http://www.m88k.com

Fun fact - the 88k was designed by Mitch Alsup, who also designed SPARC CPUs for Ross, x86s for AMD and others. He is retired, but still active in the comp.arch Usenet newsgroup.

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