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Comment by sprash

Playing around with 68k assembly is actually much more fun. These days all the logic is absolutely dwarfed by caches in terms of chip area. This means using RISC does not really make as much sense today as it did in the 80s. That's why the most popular architectures are still CISC (assuming ARM64 can not really be called RISC).

Personally I would be more interested in a fully orthogonal instruction set like 68k but without the insane addressing modes and a better binary format.

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