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Ask HN: What was the first commercial computer to use the 68000 CPU?

2 pointsby trestenhortzover 4 years ago

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Someoneover 4 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.old-computers.com&#x2F;museum&#x2F;computer.asp?st=1&amp;c=254" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.old-computers.com&#x2F;museum&#x2F;computer.asp?st=1&amp;c=254</a>:<p><i>“The Wicat is one of the first (perhaps even the first) computer to use a Motorola MC68000 processor.”</i><p>That page says this system was released in 1981.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sun-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sun-1</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_System_9000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_System_9000</a> both are from may 1982.<p>Apollo&#x2F;Domain DN416 also is in the race, but I couldn’t find much about it, other than that it was a dual-CPU system, using the second CPU to implement virtual memory (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apollo&#x2F;Domain#Models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apollo&#x2F;Domain#Models</a>: <i>“This system used two 68000 processors and implemented virtual memory (which the 68000 wasn&#x27;t theoretically capable of) by stopping one processor when there was a page fault and having the other processor handle the fault, then release the primary processor when the page fault was handled.”</i>)