homebrew 'puter project (was: 8008?

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 13:31:55 CST 2005


On 11/17/05, Roger Merchberger <zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:
> Dunno enough about 68Ks (yet) but 6800/6809 CPUs only have memory-mapped
> I/O, so all that's needed is to buffer the lines (unless you're feeling
> particularly foolhardy, like on the CoCo) and address decoding. Not exactly
> a *lot* of hardware, as it were...

The 68000 is like the 6800/6809 in that regard... no special I/O bus
or instrunctions,
just memory decoding, and a lot of MOVE instructions,

-ethan



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