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Post #2409999
2025-09-09 03:54 UTC
@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place
What caused the demise of m68k?
@regehr@mastodon.social @steve@discuss.systems
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-09-09 04:10
@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place @regehr@mastodon.social @steve@discuss.systems 68k went way way too CISC right at the point RISC got all trendy. Like... RISC was wrong in the long term, but it was 20% right for a decade or so. And then it was wrong. Sadly, that was long enough to kill 68k as a mainstream part (though it lived on for a looooong time in the embedded space)