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From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: atari ABC  yea or nay  ????
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Date: 20 Nov 89 14:46:21 GMT
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In article <46300069@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> rjk752@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>                           In fact the IBM emulator on my Atari has a Norton
>SI rating between 2.5 and 3.0 because of the power of the 68000 (RISC
>architecture). 



your posting is an excellent defence of the power and versatility of the
atari st line of computers, but you, especially as a computer engineer, should
realize that the 68000 is nowhere near being RISC architecture. the 68000
has a very complex instruction set, with very complex addressing modes.
(the 020 and 030 have even better addressing modes, but that's another
story). a RISC architecture means the processor has a limited set of
addressing modes, mainly loading into a register and saving from a register,
and they usually have a better file of general purpose registers than what
the 68000 offers. anyways, thanx for actually standing up for the atari st.
it's a real shame that so many people in north america are ignorant to the
power of this machine. i guess it will never die in europe, though, which
makes me feel a little bettter.


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