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    (One of the papers Wikipedia references talks about M68010 CPUs,
    maybe early cache work was done with them.)<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/9/25 19:37, Lawrence Stewart
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      I’ve not heard of anyone having a complete Firefly.  Around 70
      were build I think.
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        <div>The Firefox was build as a product in the late ’80s by
          Workstation Systems Engineering, which was down the street
          from us at the Systems Research Center in Palo Alto.  It was
          maybe inspired by Firefly but had an entirely different
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        <div>I see this topic came up once before here, in
          2019: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-August/018389.html">https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-August/018389.html</a></div>
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              <div>On Jun 9, 2025, at 15:16, Henry Bent
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                  <div dir="ltr">On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 14:59, Lawrence
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                      My rare items are only Unix-adjacent.  I have a
                      Digital “Beta” prototype, the first Alpha machine
                      in a PC form factor. It runs OSF-1, or would if I
                      can find the SIMMs I borrowed from it :).  I have
                      some boards for a Digital Firefly, a research vax
                      multiprocessor that ran a Modula-2 based OS that
                      would run Ultrix binaries.<br>
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                    <div>That's incredibly cool.  Do you know if any of
                      the Firefly machines survived?  I saw a VAXstation
                      3540 for sale at some point recently but it was
                      well out of my price range; I hope it found a good
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