Exploring the Transition from Motorola 68000 to PA-RISC and PowerPC Architectures
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Summary
The article discusses the transition from the Motorola 68000 family to other architectures, such as PowerPC and PA-RISC, highlighting historical examples like the Palm OS and Commodore's Amigas. It touches on the controversy around backwards compatibility and the potential of PA-RISC in Apple's ecosystem.
Key quotes
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The successor to Commodore's 68K Amigas was intended to be based on PA-RISC, Hewlett-Packard's 'Precision Architecture' processor family.
Controversy swirled regarding backwards compatibility in the Hombre chipset prototypes.
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