[Lazarus] 68K

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> On 15.09.2011 19:47, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:28:16AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> I see that the Linux kernel still supports the architecture, and that
>>> Qemu supports a variant. But I don't think I've ever seen a 68K system
>>> on e.g. eBay... I lie, somebody was trying to give away an old
>>> workstation on a private conferencing system I use (CIX) but it had
>>> something like 2Mb RAM.
>>
>> It used to be fairly easy, since on mac fairs they gave them away for 
>> free.
>>
>> Easier than Sparc or Mips that never made consumer hardware.
> 
> Some TVs are running on MIPS with Linux now... just as a sidenote (I 
> personally own a TV with an ARM and a Linux :P )

Also OpenWRT reflashes popular MIPS-based routers, and the earlier Raq 
routers were MIPS and could be repurposed. We missed a bin SGI 
visualisation system being sold locally on eBay a year ago, went for £10 :-(

But the viability of the Chinese Loongson MIPS-based chip is very much 
an open question.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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