interesting DEC Pro stuff on eBay

[Peter Corlett]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:12:07PM -0400, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
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> Agree here. I loved the 68K and have fond memories of writing programs in
> it. But while the x86 has been Frankensteined into 64 bits, I don't think
> I can see the 68K ever being a 64-bit architecture. I don't think there
> are enough unused bits in the instruction formatting for that.

The Apollo 68080 core claims to have 64 bit registers, but the whole thing
is woefully underdocumented. If there's documentation of its instruction
encodings beyond the vasm source code, I can't find it.