GoKawiilWhat in the tarnation is an Atari Jaguar?
Released in North America in November of 1993, the Atari Jaguar promised to be the new cool kid in the block thanks to it's (Highly debated) 64 bits of pure power.
The Atari Jaguar
The console itself ended up being a commercial disaster, even after the release of the CD addon, the Jaguar CD; which managed to sell even less units in a desperate attempt to try and compete with the Sony Playstation and the Sega Saturn.
The Atari Jaguar CD Add-on
Why in the tarnation Linux of all things?
Interestingly enough, to this day, Linux has architecture code for the 68000-family of processors. 68040, 68030, 68010... and even the original base 68000 processor. All neatly structured under arch/m68k/ .
As a refresher, the Motorola 68000 was a CISC processor with mixed 16-32 bit capabilities (It's usually described as being 32-bit internally due to the register width length and 16-bit because the data bus was 16-bit, so 2-byte transfers at a time).
It had a 24-bit address bus, 2 to the power 24; thereabout a maximum of 16MBs of addressable memory.
It was released on 1979 to compete with the soon-to-be-released 16-bit CPUs of the era.
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