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litwr · 01 February 2017, 08:35

I ran pi-calculator with an emulated A1200 with WB 1.3.3 a lot of times. It always worked nice. So there is only a problem for more modern OS.
Intel architecture is not perfect but it has less oddity than Motorola. The dedicated address registers, two carry flags, two stacks, ... - all this stuff looks like an implementation of some bad theory. I have to say that NS320xx or DEC CPUs have even more oddities than 680x0. Only 6502 and ARM have more clear architecture than Intel x86. 8086 is 16 bit CPU and it was the first in the x86 line.

01 February 2017, 08:35	#9
litwr Registered User Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Ozherele Posts: 229	I ran pi-calculator with an emulated A1200 with WB 1.3.3 a lot of times. It always worked nice. So there is only a problem for more modern OS. Intel architecture is not perfect but it has less oddity than Motorola. The dedicated address registers, two carry flags, two stacks, ... - all this stuff looks like an implementation of some bad theory. I have to say that NS320xx or DEC CPUs have even more oddities than 680x0. Only 6502 and ARM have more clear architecture than Intel x86. 8086 is 16 bit CPU and it was the first in the x86 line.