4 Feb
2021
4 Feb
'21
4:47 p.m.
On 2/3/2021 8:33 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
Neither, more of an observation than anything.
Post/pre decrement/increment, 32-bit everything, it was an easy move,
mentally, from VAX to 68K. I cut my teeth on a PDP-10, but also VAX, and
a sprinkling of microprocessors such as the 8080, Z80, 6502 and of
course, 8088/86.
Back around the mid 80's, a friend and I built a 68020 prototype
computer from spare parts, all wire-wrapped, fast static RAM (it was
free), and I wrote a cross-assembler in C (on a 80386 PC) and we went to
town. And then, as they say, life happened. It was much easier to get
access to, or take home, powerful enough computers that we didn't need
to build our own. My friend still has the thing. I still have the
cross-assembler too, but sadly no actual code I wrote at the time. It
would have been worth a laugh or two ;)
I still have a Sun 3/280 laying around here somewhere...
art k.
The 68K always
reminded me of the VAX.
I'm not sure if that is a compliment or not.