-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Does any of the processors in the M68K family support VM? > > They did since the early 1980s when i wondered what the advantage of an > 68010 would be over an 68000 (with HP BASIC: none). > http://gunkies.org/wiki/MC68010 > > After all, early Sun, HP and Apollo Unix workstations were based on 680X0.
With TLB cache and all that? Pretty impressive :) > > Does any of the M68K family members prefetch speculatively? > > The last one (68060) had Branch Prediction, which implies some kind of > speculative execution and data prefetching. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000_series I remember at the time to be pretty discouraging to see 8086 and ilk eating all the market. > Man against hardware. Who will finally win ? Hardware. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlpPjgsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kat8wCfTIjdez6O0MMe+5dCvc1rntUL bskAniAbwBnxHumIdRpojWpSp9o0iSaJ =mZjm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----