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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  680x0 vs 80x86
Message-ID: <131@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 91 07:52:44 GMT
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Responding to the following:

>On the other hand, the 68000 has 8 general purpose data registers and
>7 general purpose address registers.

What I meant by "general purpose" was that many registers can be used to
hold both addresses and data. Granted, this is limiting architecturally,
and the implimentation is brain-dead as you imply, since most of those
are used as implicit parameters in various instructions.