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From: bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Baker - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 32-bit Ram & Instruction Lengths.
Message-ID: <10136@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Mar 90 14:54:52 GMT
References: <223.25fd1cf8@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: bbaker@cbmvax (Bob Baker - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <223.25fd1cf8@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> I quote from the official motorola MC68010/MC68012  16-/32 bit Virtual
> Memory Microprocessors Advance Information manulal, May 1985.
> 
> "Instructions are from one to five words in length...."
>    pg 2.4
> 
> This means that an instruction is anywhere from 2-10 bytes in length,
> irrespective of the processor being used, (68008-68030, 020&030 might have
> longer ones, but I doubt it.)

Actually, if you include the floating point instructions then the
maximum instruction length can go up to 8 WORDS (16 bytes) when using
immediate operands!