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A New Amiga Will Go On Sale In Late 2017 (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quote the Register:
The world's getting a new Amiga for Christmas. Yes, that Amiga -- the seminal Commodore microcomputers that brought mouse-driven GUIs plus slick and speedy graphics to the masses from 1985 to 1996... The platform died when Commodore went bankrupt, but enthusiasm for the Amiga persisted and various clones and efforts to preserve AmigaOS continue to this day. One such effort, from Apollo Accelerators, emerged last week: the company's forthcoming "Vampire V4" can work as a standalone Amiga or an accelerator for older Amigas... There's also 512MB of RAM, 40-and-44-pin FastIDE connectors, Ethernet, a pair of USB ports and MicroSD for storage [PDF]. Micro USB gets power to the board.
A school in Michigan used the same Amiga for 30 years. Whenever it broke, they actually phoned up the high school student who original set it up in 1987 and had him come over to fix it.
A school in Michigan used the same Amiga for 30 years. Whenever it broke, they actually phoned up the high school student who original set it up in 1987 and had him come over to fix it.
The thing about Amiga owners is you can't get them to shut up about their Amiga. It's like the guy who doesn't have a TV, or the guy who rides a bike to work. We don't give a shit about your Amiga, dude.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
"(nb. the Alpha's ISA was beautiful IMO)"
LOL comments like this are a dead giveaway. Alpha's "ISA" was threadbare, the most primitive of all; beautiful to hardware engineers for ease of implementation, POS for programmers who had to use it. No hardware divide LOL. Power envelopes 3-4x the competition as well. Awful. Fortunately, the engineering talent was refocused to produce useful processors rather than ones designed to run the Vomit Making System.
"Didn't the x86 (to pick randomly) have a single-instruction block move? I do believe it did because I used it when asm'ing on a 286"
You were asm'ing? quite the sophisticate you were. We can see now the intellect that produced the other comment.
REP MOVSW might be what you struggle to recall, expert that surely otherwise are. No, it's not a "single-instruction block move" since it requires other instructions to set up the source, destination and count registers.