From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 13 10:15:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E9E37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15L6XX-000Cfb-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:15:43 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6DHFgU16996 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:15:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:15:42 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: opinions on the M68000 series cpus? Message-ID: <20010713181542.F16488@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was one of those punks that held on to my Amiga till it was obvious that the best technology *wasn't* going to win. But I absolutely loved assembly language programming on that machine. Huge registers with simple names, flat addressing, rich instruction set, lots of indirect addressing modes, not to mention the API was fun to work with as well. What do you think of the 68000 series? Was it a good CPU from the standpoint of a programmer? Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message