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Maybe drawing silly cartoons should be one of them ^^
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Motorola 68k is the Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors used in a lot of computers from the 1980s and early 1990s. Think classic Macintosh (before they went to PowerPC and then Intel), Commodore Amiga, and Atari ST. The only common computer I know of from that time period that didn't use the Motorola 68k architecture was the IBM PC, its derivatives (IBM PC AT, PC XT, PS/2, etc.) and their clones (brands like Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Dell, Brother, Zenith, and so on). They used the Intel architecture (which was sometimes made by AMD instead of Intel)
There were a few computers that used system architectures other than Motorola 68k or Intel/AMD. I've heard of one or two computers that used Alpha, another one or two that used Zilog Z80 or something like that, but I've forgotten their names. Of course, really old machines like the Osborne, Apple II, and Commodore C64 used the 68k's predecessor, the Motorola 60k. And in Britain in the 80s and 90s, there was the Acorn RISC PC, which used the ARM architecture--the same basic system architecture which is now used (in modernized, 64-bit, multi-core form) in the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computers (I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 right now to post this comment) and in many smartphones, tablets, and Chromebooks.
Motorola 68k is the Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors used in a lot of computers from the 1980s and early 1990s. Think classic Macintosh (before they went to PowerPC and then Intel), Commodore Amiga, and Atari ST. The only common computer I know of from that time period that didn't use the Motorola 68k architecture was the IBM PC, its derivatives (IBM PC AT, PC XT, PS/2, etc.) and their clones (brands like Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Dell, Brother, Zenith, and so on). They used the Intel architecture (which was sometimes made by AMD instead of Intel)
There were a few computers that used system architectures other than Motorola 68k or Intel/AMD. I've heard of one or two computers that used Alpha, another one or two that used Zilog Z80 or something like that, but I've forgotten their names. Of course, really old machines like the Osborne, Apple II, and Commodore C64 used the 68k's predecessor, the Motorola 60k. And in Britain in the 80s and 90s, there was the Acorn RISC PC, which used the ARM architecture--the same basic system architecture which is now used (in modernized, 64-bit, multi-core form) in the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computers (I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 right now to post this comment) and in many smartphones, tablets, and Chromebooks.
I wouldn't call programming in Motorola 68k assembly a useless skill! Do you have any idea how many Amiga/Atari/classic Macintosh geeks out there would love to know how to do that, or have some software written for their machines?
(I'll soon be among them, as soon as I can get my paws on an Amiga 4000 for less than $2000, which was the price for the last one--a complete system with accessories!--that I saw on eBay.)
(I'll soon be among them, as soon as I can get my paws on an Amiga 4000 for less than $2000, which was the price for the last one--a complete system with accessories!--that I saw on eBay.)
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