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Originally Posted by meynaf
Having two stacks is nothing like "clumsiness and contrived oddities".
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Indeed. Have fun implementing a multitasking OS with only one stack, for example.
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On the other hand, x86 lacks the very useful CLR, TST, and MOVEM.
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Can't you do
tst rx on x86 with just
mov rx,rx or something like that?
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Arithmetic and logical shifts are indeed a little redundant
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Only arithmetic left shift is redundant, though.
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And, oh, yes. The segmentation stuff is far from "brilliant". Actually one of the worse things ever invented.
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Couldn't agree more. Having 16Mb address space on the 68000 is fantastic. Sure, in 1979 that would've been a bit much, but Motorola was clearly thinking of the future here. Same with the brilliant idea of making the instruction set 32bit.
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Talking about "ease of programming" in case of x86 looks like the author never attempted to write any code.
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I've read how someone actually thinks the 6502 is a dream to code on
