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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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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 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
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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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