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		Findecanor 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650 I double-checked, and you're right. I stand corrected. Weird, I had believed for a long time that the MC68030 had dropped the memory-indirect address modes.

eschaton 73 days ago [–]

The 68030 really only dropped the Call Module and Return from Module instructions, which nobody used anyway since relatively few developers wanted to write code only for 68020 and higher around the time the 68020 and then 68030 shipped.

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