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Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish?
Date 2017-02-18 19:50 -0800
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jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> writes:
> majority of code would have quite a lot of 1 to 1 machine code mapping.

You mean you want to run 68000 binaries on the new cpu after some
machine translation?  It's not impossible, binary translators are
written all the time, but if you want a 32-bit m68k why not use one?
Don't they still make them?

> The boot strap of a whole OS would be comparatively simple.

I doubt this ;-)

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How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2017-02-18 13:44 -0800
  Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-18 16:05 -0800
    Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2017-02-18 16:15 -0800
      Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-18 19:50 -0800
        Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2017-02-18 20:17 -0800
  Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-18 17:41 -0800
    Re: How easy to port to this 68000 variant-ish? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2017-02-18 19:29 -0800

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