68k

[Epic Tissue]

Just wondering, anyone familiar with the 68k?

linky

[btiffin]

Before porting to Vaxen, we built a 64 concurrent user Forth system using a 68000 and a bunch of 8 port IO cards. Nice chip.

Given that 25 years has elapsed, I can only say I used to be familiar.

Cheers

[md]

I'm currently taking an assembly language course that uses it. I can say it's interesting... but oh how I prefer RISC (like say... ARM or MIPS) to CISC.

[jernst]

Im still pretty familiar with it, I took a course in it at laurier about two years ago

[apomb]

At my first college program, i took an assembly language course in which i hooked up a logic analyzer and some input/output stuff to one of these chips, here are some pics from that project:

[silent1mezzo]

I've taken a couple courses. DOn't remember much but still have the textbook lying around.

[Epic Tissue]

Out of interest, what textbook?

[Tony]

I wrote an Assember (for MIPS though, not 64K) for one of my courses. So I'm familiar with the very basics of Assembly. Though I doubt I can write anything useful, that is also significantly more optimized than something like gcc could compile for me.

[rizzix]

Something that's worthwhile knowing is creating GCC frontends if you're into language design; or creating GCC backends if you're into writing assemblers for hardware. Then just let GCC handle the optimization part for you.