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Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?



On 7/7/23 17:24, Dan Ritter wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:

With bits and bytes, one strange thing that I remember, is that, in 1985, in
Australia, a particular computer was introduced, that had a 32 bit processor
with 8 bit buses. It was a Motorola 68008 CPU, and, I could not understand
why a company would produce a 32 bit CPU wit 8 bit buses. The computer was
named the Telecom Computerphone, and, it was an oddity in itself.

Compatible parts make for cheaper systems.

In the late 70s and early 80s, most mass-produced systems were 8-bit
microprocessors with an 8-bit bus, connecting to peripherals that assumed
an 8-bit bus.

Motorola's 68000 line had an internal 32 bit architecture, which made
the CPU both performant and expensive. But a manufacturer of systems
could contain the overall cost by using 8-bit devices outside of the
CPU. The first generation was hybrid 16/32 bit internally, and came in
variants selected for cost vs performance: 8, 16 or 32 bit external bus.

The 2nd generation 68030 was 32 bits inside and out, and had a hardware
memory manager, which meant it was the first one that we, sitting here 36
years later, would think of as a system with enough features that we could
reasonably compile software for it. Debian supported 68030s and later
from 2.0 through 4.0, though by that time it was clearly a doomed target.

-dsr-

.
Which could have done better, but debians support of accessory stuff was non-existent. I had a set of cd's that put an early Debian Linux on a 68040 based machine with 64 megs of 32 bit ram on the PP&S board. It did not recognize the ram so was running on the 2 megs on the 2090 SCSI controller so obviously it spent 98% of the 68000 CPU on the A-2000's main board hammering on the swap on a 1Gig seagate drive. It did not recognize the 68040 either, so just opening a shell was a 5 minute process. I went back to AmigaDos3.1 as it was usable until the battery leaked and ate the motherboard. I built by first Linux box, with a 400MHz k6 and installed Red Hat 5.0 circa 1998, used the Amiga for a net gateway back in dial-up days. Computing was fun then and I had lots of fun demoing to the dos lovers just how blazingly fast the Amiga was compared to their dos boxes. It was also a lot faster than the first McIntosh's from Apple. Then the 2 idiots that started Commode Door took the accounts receivables to Bermuda for a rum and coke and never came back.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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