[rescue] Sun 711

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> Would you recommend the PDP-11 architecture as being good to study for
> a beginner student on computer architecture and processor workings?
> 
> If not, what?

Motorola 68000. IMHO a nice simple architechure to begin with. Does not
have that silly byte swaping that Intel copied from DEC, because DEC did
not want to be "IBM compatible" when that meant mainframes.

Tons of documention, software, etc. 68k MACs are giveaway items these days.

Geoff.

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