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From: mfranz@bernina.ethz.ch (Michael Franz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: MacOberon on 68000 ?
Message-ID: <1991May10.080647.8774@bernina.ethz.ch>
Date: 10 May 91 08:06:47 GMT
References: <1991May9.022343.17037@newshost.anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: mfranz@bernina.UUCP (Michael Franz)
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zuerich
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MacOberon requires an MC68020 or higher and a floating-point
coprocessor.  Niklaus Wirth himself decided that we shouldn't try to
make Oberon work on the 68000 because "Oberon is a modern operating
system designed for modern processors".  Lack of performance would be
perceived as a flaw of Oberon, and not the processor architecture.
Consequently the deliberate restriction to 68020.

Michael Franz