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    From David Morton@21:1/5 to Johan Grip on Thu Nov 5 14:42:06 2020
    On Thursday, November 18, 1999 at 7:00:00 PM UTC+11, Johan Grip wrote:
    Marcel DeVoe wrote:

    Just caught up with this thread...

    Erik Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
    I thought you all might be interested inthis email I recieved. It is from Matt Costanza who works at Motorola.

    "The Motorola 68060 is currently used in a number of Network and telecommunications equipment (IP switches and routers). Motorola
    makes the 6560 MP router pro. It is a backbone router that is
    based on the 68060.

    A number of other vendors use the 060 like Bay, Cisco, Nortel, Lucent Livingston.

    You are correct with Lucent and telecommunications. We just started up a new line of switching bays called "Band Width Manager" for the "New Millenium" and some of the circuit packs in the switching bays I'm testing have LC 060's on their daughterboards.

    And this is a "new" system. ;)

    Our big Nortel Meridian-1 Option 81 telephony PBX uses two 68060/50..
    //Johan
    The 68060 was pin compatible with the 68040. As the 68040 was used in MACs and third party accelerator cards for MACs; you'll probably find old 68060 MAC accelerator cards on the market every now and then.

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  • From Gregory Allen@21:1/5 to David Morton on Sat Nov 7 01:35:28 2020
    On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 10:42:07 PM UTC, David Morton wrote:
    On Thursday, November 18, 1999 at 7:00:00 PM UTC+11, Johan Grip wrote:
    Marcel DeVoe wrote:

    Just caught up with this thread...

    Erik Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
    I thought you all might be interested inthis email I recieved. It is from
    Matt Costanza who works at Motorola.

    "The Motorola 68060 is currently used in a number of Network and telecommunications equipment (IP switches and routers). Motorola
    makes the 6560 MP router pro. It is a backbone router that is
    based on the 68060.

    A number of other vendors use the 060 like Bay, Cisco, Nortel, Lucent Livingston.

    You are correct with Lucent and telecommunications. We just started up a new line of switching bays called "Band Width Manager" for the "New Millenium" and some of the circuit packs in the switching bays I'm testing
    have LC 060's on their daughterboards.

    And this is a "new" system. ;)

    Our big Nortel Meridian-1 Option 81 telephony PBX uses two 68060/50.. //Johan
    The 68060 was pin compatible with the 68040. As the 68040 was used in MACs and third party accelerator cards for MACs; you'll probably find old 68060 MAC accelerator cards on the market every now and then.

    Careful with this thread, it's an antique!

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  • From jaeson koszarsky@21:1/5 to David Morton on Sat Feb 27 10:26:59 2021
    On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 5:42:07 PM UTC-5, David Morton wrote:

    The 68060 was pin compatible with the 68040. As the 68040 was used in MACs and third party accelerator cards for MACs; you'll probably find old 68060 MAC accelerator cards on the market every now and then.

    I read that people were trying to get 060s working with NeXT computers but couldn't. I don't think I've seen any Mac 060 mods, but they could be out there.

    Usually the 040-060 adapters need voltage regulators. In the case of MacroSystem's DraCo and Casablance video editors, this wasn't necessary. MacroSystem sold systems in 040 and 060 (render accelerated) versions. For the 040s, they used the 68040V
    which is a 68040 that runs on 3.3v instead of the usual 5v. This allowed for an easy processor swap to upgrade your DraCo or Casablanca.

    https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/product-brief/MC68040V.pdf

    I would be interested in a product like Vampire that could plug into an 040/060 socket. The A500 version sits in the 68000 socket. A Vampire that could connect to the 040/060 socket could appeal to any big box Amiga user with an 040/060 processor card,
    or a DraCo/Casablanca user. Given space consideration, you'd probably need some sort of cable to go from the 040/060 socket to an open space that the Vampire could live in, maybe an empty drive bay or in an empty ZORRO/ISA slot.

    Jaeson

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