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Article #617531Re: 68060 Power
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:00
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:00
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On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:28:49 -0500, J. Clarke wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:55:01 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach > <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > >>Would probably also have been a nice CPU for space probes then. A quick >>search doesn't say any space probe would had use it though. There might >>still be more less power hungry microprocessors... > > Are you talking about then or now? Any. > Now, consider that that 90 watts is for performance that walks all over > the most powerful supercomputers that were contemporary with the > initial release of the 68000. Something as simple and slow as the > 68000 would be drawing milliwatts today. > > As for space probes, Reagan pretty much killed NASA deep space > operations in the '80s--the only things they got off before the end of > the decade were Magellan and Galileo. The Galileo design was started > well before the 68000 shipped and used 6 1802s and two 16-bit-slice > processors built from AMD2900s, all rad-hard. Magellan pretty much > copied the Galileo design. I just read that the rover Sojourner they sent to Mars (Pathfinder Mission) in 1996 had an Intel 80C85 (from 1975). Seems an M68000 was never an option when it came to space probes. I cannot find when the design for Pathfinder started. But suppose after the 70s ended, so the M68000 would had been available. -- Andreas You know you are a redneck if your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
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