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on Friday February 21 2014, @05:33AM
from the I-don't-care,-I'm-still-free.-You-can't-take-the-garage-from-me dept.
from the I-don't-care,-I'm-still-free.-You-can't-take-the-garage-from-me dept.
demonlapin writes:
"Brian Benchoff at Hackaday has an ambitious new project: a homebrew computer based not on a classic 8-bit processor like the Z80 or 6502, but on the 16-bit Motorola 68000. It's a backplane-based machine with wire-wrapped connections planned. His first summary post is here. Blinkenlights are planned."
[ED Note: With so much commercially available hardware getting more and more locked down, projects like this are a good reminder of what is possible for a dedicated enthusiast.]
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(Score: 1) by darinbob on Friday February 21 2014, @11:33PM
But the same CPU doesn't mean things are compatible. There are different application interfaces, like stack layouts and register usage conventions, plus different reliance on operating systems, different hardware memory layouts, an so forth. Even on the exact same machine we don't have compatibility.