The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later

Re:The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years ... by Narishma on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:06AM (#25685368)

Does that mean it was faster at dealing with 16-bit values even if it had 32-bit registers?

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Re:The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years ... by flohofwoe on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:18AM (#25685487)

Hmm, looking at cycle count tables it looks like 8- and 16-bit operations are indeed faster than 32-bit operations (e.g. add.w is faster than add.l).

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Re:The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years ... by bcrl on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:20PM (#25696157)

Deterministic CPUs seem like such a distant part of the past.

I loved the days when Motorola and Intel would ship you a full set of detailed manuals about everything from CPUs to MMUs, UARTs and whatever other chips they made. I still have my Motorola manuals sitting on the shelf. Was such a nice instruction set to learn on after the 6502.

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