[wplug] Apple LC

T Quine quining at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 5 08:31:29 EDT 2001


Actually, the original LC was a M68020, and decidedly MMU-less.

-QUINE-



>From: wplug at badgertronics.com (Mark Dalrymple)
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Apple LC
>Date: 5 Sep 2001 11:49:13 -0000
>
> >> I have two very old macs (one LC and one Quadra 605), and I'm more than
> >> willing to bring them to the installfest if anyone wants to mess around 
>to
>
> > I don't quite remember, but do they have MMUs? (68040 and up, IIRC).  If
> > not, you couldn't run a modern OS like Linux on them.
>
>Yep.  68030's and above have MMUs, which is processor in the LC and
>Q605.  The only "heavy duty" mac with a 68020 was the original Mac II
>back in 1988 or so, and you could get a plug-in MMU if you wanted to
>run AU/X.  (it had 6 slots, so you could plug 6 monitors into that bad
>boy.  it was sweet)
>
>++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com  http://badgertronics.com
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