On 25/11/12 19:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] > I've been a vivid Amiga user since 1991* and I still love these > machines and I am supporting the efforts to get Debian back onto > m68k. Yet, I do not think this should happen at all costs. There > haven't been no new 68k processors for years, have there?
Freescale make a line of embedded processors derived from the 68k, under the brand name ColdFire. I used them a while ago --- they're pretty decent, although not entirely 68k compatible. I was slightly bemused to see that they're marketed as RISC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_ColdFire The differences are described here: http://goo.gl/hCmT8 Unfortunately, *because* they're different it's probably impossible to use one to build Amiga or Atari ST or Mac compatible hardware. OTOH, because they're so similar to the 68k, rebuilding Debian for the Coldfire is probably trivial (inasmuch a full archive rebuild is trivial...). I notice a couple of moribund Alioth projects devoted to doing just that. On the gripping hand, I see this: http://acp.atari.org/ -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ "Of course, on a sufficiently small planet, 40 km/hr is, in fact, │ sufficient to punt the elastic spherical cow into low orbit." --- │ Brooks Moses on r.a.sf.c
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