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From: gd@geovision.uucp (Gord Deinstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: 68000 architecture
Summary: why signed?
Message-ID: <658@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 01:48:50 GMT
References: <1989May30.171335.473@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gd@geovision.UUCP (Gord Deinstadt)
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1989May30.171335.473@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>Just to be heretical, one can observe that the same thing is true of
>addresses.  You can run the 68k family with 16-bit addresses (although
>they have to be *signed* 16-bit addresses!).

Can anyone tell my why Motorola did such a twisted, sick thing?

Gord Deinstadt       gd@geovision.uucp