begin  quoting DJA as of Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:27:50AM -0700:
> Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:
> >On May 12, 2005, at 12:05 AM, DJA wrote:
> >
> >>The 68000 /did/ exist then. And IMO, it was and still is superior  to 
> >>anything x86ish.
> >
> >Eh.  Maybe.  The 68000 had its own sets of problems.  MMU stuff;  
> >somewhat strange FPU issues; memory-mapped I/O in a time when that  was 
> >expensive; I think there were some interrupt issues I am  forgetting 
> >nowadays.
> 
> Funny, if we all didn't know you were talking about the 68000, we'd 
> think you were talking about the x86!

Aside from the memory-mapped I/O.

-Stewart "But it wasn't THAT expensive." Stremler

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