By: Mark Roulo (nothanks.delete@this.xxx.com), August 7, 2022 6:05 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Brett (ggtgp.delete@this.yahoo.com) on August 7, 2022 5:37 pm wrote:
> As much as I once loved the 68000, it is a horrid kludge that was
> just thrown together without an understanding of software.
The 68000 was designed in an era when serious programming was done in assembly rather than in C or something even higher level.
An understanding that simpler instructions (especially regarding addressing modes and decode simplicity) combined with a cache was better came later.
> As much as I once loved the 68000, it is a horrid kludge that was
> just thrown together without an understanding of software.
The 68000 was designed in an era when serious programming was done in assembly rather than in C or something even higher level.
An understanding that simpler instructions (especially regarding addressing modes and decode simplicity) combined with a cache was better came later.