80186 and now AMY chip

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Tue Nov 21 04:00:12 2000

It was thus said that the Great Hans Franke once stated:
>
> Shure ? I had to go thru the same kind of decision, and I
> learned to love the 186 - shure, one needs a little push
> to start, but later on it's just great - eventualy the best
> _sixteen_ bit CPU around. If you look at the 8080/5, Z80,
> 8086 and 80186 family, the 186 is the finest of all.
>
> Sleak and simple - compared the 68K looks quite bloaded
> and clumpsy (ok, it's 32 bit, but still the most compared
> competition at it's time).

  Hardware or software wise? Because I know a lot of programmers (myself
included) that consider the 80x86 line to be anything BUT sleek and simple;
a collection of exceptions is more like it.

  -spc (Having programmed both, I enjoy the 68k much more ... )
Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 04:00:12 GMT