One of the great benefits of Open Source

Posted Nov 3, 2025 14:01 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: One of the great benefits of Open Source by ms-tg
Parent article: Debian to require Rust as of May 2026

> Yeah. I suspect I am not alone in finding it amazing/shocking how much energy seems to surround m68k, alpha, etc.

Along with the 32032, I suspect the reason is that they had clean, well-designed , logical instruction sets.

That said, that was probably true of the Intel 4004 back in the day, and is probably no longer true for the "current" versions of the m68k etc. "It's nice and clean to program for" will attract a following ...

Cheers,
Wol