Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype

Re:Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype by kjs3 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:45AM (#33789836)

Yeah...it was pretty much an olive branch to the dead-enders who hadn't drunk the RISC coolaide. Most all of the shops I knew who bought them had some critical app that wasn't being ported to SPARC. Sun also had the 3/400 series servers that were 68030 based.

The 3/80 was also notable for using the Sparcstation expansion bus called 'SBus', which Sun used to claim SBus was an 'architecture neutral' expansion bus and tried to position it as a competitor to PCI (for a very short period of time). I went to a Sun SBus hardware design class at one point...it was a nifty design but clearly wasn't getting market traction outside Sun.

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Re:Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype by neilv on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:59PM (#33795982)

I didn't know about the 3/400 series.

One nice thing about the migration to SPARC is I was able to personally buy a retired 3/75 from the local Sun field office as a teen. Unix and megapixel display for a fraction of what assembling that with a PC would've cost. :)

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