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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
? I found this design a few years ago and liked it, but haven't built
one yet:
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http://www.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/68k/68k.html
? ? ? ? ? ? -Dave
?C: I like it Dave. I genuinely do. I may be unorthodox in my approaches to things.
It's not that I don't like sbc's, love them in fact (God how I'd love to
either research or just get to look at someone else's research regarding the myriads
of 80186 sbc's that were created in the 80s). But as far as learning computers, I
don't necessarily see the benefit of a sbc (much less an sdk w/a keypad), as opposed
to an established system. I guess it could help to at least contrast a bare bones sbc? to
say a Mac or Atari. Generally texts seek to alleviate the complexity of a *full blown*
stand alone computer. But you can simply ignore what isn't relevant to a
beginner's learning level. As for assembly, just jump in and start writing some code.
Makes the most sense to me.