Re: life extension of old computers thanks to opensource Contiki

["Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com>]

You have hit the target straight in the center with your conclusions. I have
nothing more to add :).

> The 68000 (and 010) are extraordinarily inefficient CPUs by modern
> standards, and complex to use and interface. There is little practical
> value in learning the M68K instruction set because it's practically a
> dead family.

Sadly the instruction set is a dead family. But it's NOT complex to use and
interface, on the contrary. Maybe you only have experience with a Commodore
Amiga, which does have a fairly complicated architecture. But if you look at
simple 68000 designs, they are not much different from the older designs
around 8-bit computers. An 8088 is much harder to interface, with all those
stupid clock phases and it's silly memory map.

PeterV