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- From: tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Find better sollution
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 16:43:23 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4cu2er$r5k@sinsen.sn.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sinsen.sn.no
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- >>>>>movep was intended for 6800 style I/O chips that can't be used
- >>>>>easily with the 68040 and 68060 anyway.
- >>
- >>>>Not an excuse.
- >>
- >>>Excuse ? Not to satisfy the needs of c00l c0d3rz ? Or what ?
- >>
- >>To break every single program which uses this instruction, no
- >>necessarily written by a "cool coder". Maybe it's not the most use
- >>instruction, but you should get the picture. Everybody except yo
- >>probably understood what I mean several postings ago. You just like t
- >>argue.
-
- >The instruction was designed to move data to a peripheral. If you used
- >something else, then your code was not designed according to Motorola s
- > I think that they found that no one was using it (Mac, Amiga, etc) for
- >intended purpose (because we aren't using 8 bit peripherals), so they d
- >it to make more room on the chip (my guess).
-
- You are probably completely right, but from your explanation it would
- probably break Motorola's specs to use address registers to hold data.
- If an instruction is there, use it. Nobody can blame you for using BCD
- instructions in places where it could be of great importance, even
- though you don't manipulate BCD data.
-
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- Num.22.23: And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way
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