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Re: life extension of old computers thanks to opensource Contiki
"Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com> wrote in message
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> > 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.
I've been working with Coldfire a lot of late. Using assembler on it is like a
time warp back to when I was using the 68K family back in the late '80s.
- Bill