[Lazarus] 68K

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:28:16AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> >> enabled and/or maintained in current versions.
> >>
> >> Of course you can try to revive it again :D
> >>
> > Seems viable-
> > 
> > What is the reason why 68K is not supported in the newer versions ?
> 
> Demand? I think this thread is the first time I've seen 68K mentioned 
> for many years except in the context of programming classic Palms (for 
> which there is, it appears, a native Pascal compiler).

The Motorola Coldfire series was popular say 3-5 years ago. However nobody
really put a lot of time into it to create a port for 68k.

> I see that the Linux kernel still supports the architecture, and that 
> Qemu supports a variant. But I don't think I've ever seen a 68K system 
> on e.g. eBay... I lie, somebody was trying to give away an old 
> workstation on a private conferencing system I use (CIX) but it had 
> something like 2Mb RAM.

It used to be fairly easy, since on mac fairs they gave them away for free.

Easier than Sparc or Mips that never made consumer hardware.