From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 13 13:32:12 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 9747B37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:32:09 -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 15L9bc-000Icc-00; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:32:08 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6DKW8118647; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:32:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:32:07 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: opinions on the M68000 series cpus? Message-ID: <20010713213207.A18629@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010713181542.F16488@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010713134226.055ef570@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010713134226.055ef570@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:43:06PM -0600 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 On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:43:06PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: | At 11:15 AM 7/13/2001, j mckitrick wrote: | | >What do you think of the 68000 series? Was it a good CPU from the | >standpoint of a programmer? | | Very. The instruction set was simple, symmetrical, and easy to | understand. I *loved* a0-a7 address registers, d0-d7 data registers... 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