From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 13 12:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8592637B405 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tech_info@threespace.com) Received: from Atlanta.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010713191257.BDHR552.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@Atlanta.threespace.com> for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:12:57 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010713150923.017dec30@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:12:21 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: opinions on the M68000 series cpus? In-Reply-To: <20010713181542.F16488@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Man, I didn't know that I was the only one still using Commodore's Finest until long after the widespread acceptance of Microsoft Windows. We should have had a support group or something. :-) I never got down and dirty with assembly language, but the C programming was pretty cool. The API was clean, and not too hard to understand with a little pouring over the AmigaDOS Reference Manuals. That still remains the only platform for which I've successfully written a device driver. Now you've got me all nostalgic. I'm gonna have to go find a good emulator and some software... --Chip Morton At 01:15 PM 7/13/2001, you wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message