[sdiy] Re: Bottom Ten ICs

[Theo]

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From: Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com>
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> I have no doubt it was entirely excellent at process control. I'm less
> convinced that it was what the world needed at the centre of a home micro.
> So far as anyone can tell it didn't take the world long to become
> unconvinced too. ;)
>
> Richard
>
>
Form "It sucks cause it uses ram for registers" to "It sucks cause I can't
play games on it".
Interesting move in position :)
Now I get why you prefer the crippled by design 68000 over a sleek and lean
AVR ;^P

BTW I like the 68000 BUT.
- the multiply instruction takes longer than when you write a subroutine to
avoid it.
- was designed for multitasking but sucks at it, ok 68020 came to rescue but
only half and that took ages.
- a 6809 core on the same speed with 16 bit bus would out run it, if
existed.
- Me simply hates to see "bad" products getting so well marketed that they
over shadow better alternatives.
If Apple, Atari, Amiga and Sinclair had been ARMed, we probably wouldn't
have to put up with wintel now ;-) / :-(

Cheers
Theo
Who at the uni had to keep up with a 68000 minded prof that didn't even
understand why having 15 register sets to swap is a cool thing.