General 68000 hardware inquiry

[danbeaver]

Keep in mind that the ruthless despots who ran Commodore (into the ground) had some absolute geniuses designing there actual hardware (not the frigging models) and software; who else runs a sewer through a playground? No, wrong punch line; who else runs preemptive multitasking in a Gaming Machine?

Oh, that's right, that earlier answer was to what type of engineer is God -- a civil engineer. Now the earlier punchline

[danbeaver]

Smerf,

You are aware that Jack Tramel was a Polish emigrant who was in Auschwitz concentration camp (for being Jewish, not Polish). After the war he came to Canada and established his typewriter repair company. So he actually was a foreigner, at least to non-Polish, non-Canadian persons.

Actually if you believe that "native Americans" crossed the Bering Straits via a land bridge thousands of years ago, all Amercans are "foreigners."  The Latin origin, Foras, means [coming from] outside [lands].  Hence everybody is a "foreigner" when not from a common land

[danbeaver]

Who owned Commodore?  The investors. Who killed Commodore?  Gould primarily with help from others. How did they kill Commodore? With greed, poor advertising, and stupid marketing decisions that are complex:  the C64 should have progressed to a 16-bit version and the Amiga line should have been cleaned up (read Steve Jobs bio on how he turned Apple around from near failure).  This is my opinion

[danbeaver]

Ok, 'nuff said on that

Back to the 68000: an excellent CPU choice for its memory map. Straight up memory access with plenty of helpful traps to catch errors. The 8086 (please, only a cheap fool would use an 8088, OOPs!) had a paged based memory map and fewer traps for errors. Now both were readily available and reasonably priced. Both were simple without FPU & MMU. Speed ranges were similar. The 68000 was a better design for a multitasking environment with the 8086 requiring the LIM 4.0 paged memory model to use more than 640k. In upward development the 80386 began to show slightly better advanced and costs fell with licencing to AMD.