are there any 68000 multi-cpu systems out there?

jim s jws at jwsss.com
Fri Apr 18 21:45:03 CDT 2008


which pick company was that?

Ultimate owned the Qbus and such, but never did a 68000 coprocessor for 
the qbus or any dec machine.

Jim

Chris Kennedy wrote:
> Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
>> Just out of curiosity, were there any machines out there that were 
>> built from multiple MC68000's CPU's?
>
> I had the questionable fortune of working on a multiple 68000 machine 
> of sorts; it consisted of multiple processor boards stuffed into a 
> Q-bus machine.  The 68000 side ran a (I am not making this up) 
> multiuser PICK interpreter; the PDP-11 side ran code under RSX that 
> essentially turned the PDP-11 into a disk I/O processor.
>
> Yeah, I was pretty hungry when I signed up for that one.
>

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