Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:12:21 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: opinions on the M68000 series cpus? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010713150923.017dec30@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20010713181542.F16488@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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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
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