On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:54 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2018-03-12 15:49, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > > As the most obvious example of the impedance mismatch between 370 > > architecture and 68000 microarchitecture, the 68000 is hardwired to have > > eight each data and address registers, not sixteen GPRs, and microcode > > can't easily paper over that. > > I wouldn't bet on that ... > I'm fairly sure of it, based on microarchitectural details in the US patents on the 68000 design.