May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
13h 41m
English
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Servicing 68000-based microcomputers 265
68000 actually went
ahead!
The concept was to create a new family of super-microprocessors
which would provide increasing levels of functionality and performance.
At the time, it was felt that the majority of future software development would be in
high-level languages and that this should be reflected in both the internal architecture and
instruction set of the 68000. Thus the chip had a particularly sleek and uncluttered
architecture coupled with a straightforward instruction set which employs orthogonal
addressing modes. It is not surprising, therefore, that the 68000 more closely resembled
contemporar ...