21 Nov
2000
21 Nov
'00
4:14 a.m.
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.
Soft and Handware - well, the Hardware is more or less simple
(Although the integrrated components where quite handy back then)
A simple programming model (shure, not a /370 ISA, but who's
perfect), a well tuned instructionset. in my eyes, the 186
(and 286) has been the summit of x86 development.
-spc (Having programmed both, I enjoy the 68k much
more ... )
Brr - If I have to do a VAX alike micro, I'll prefer the NS for
shure. I did all 3 in Assembly - 186 on PCs (and SBCs), 68k on
the Atari ST, and NS32032 on Unix servers.
Gruss
H.
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