daday@ecs.umass.edu (11/14/90)
X-News: umaecs comp.sys.m68k:669 >From: pdp8@athena.mit.edu (John W.F. McClain) >Subject:Info wanted one buiding m68k systems >Date: 9 Nov 90 21:26:49 GMT >Message-ID:<1990Nov9.212649.27565@athena.mit.edu> >I have made 2 posting like this before, but I think they got lost. >Sorry if you have seen this. > >I want to "play" with 680n0s a little, mabye even build a simple m68k box. >Does any one know where I should start? Besides the m68k data manual are then >any good books on designing/building with the m68k (as opposed to programing >the m68k)? > >Thanks in advance > >John W.F. McClain pdp8@athena.mit.edu Why don't you try starting off with one of the really good books on the market? Here at UMASS in the computer systems engineeing course we use the book "68000 Microcomputer Systems, Designing and Troubleshooting," by Alan D Wilcox. In Cambridge, you should be able to get it over at Qantuum books. I have more or less followed it to get my 68K up and running in less than three weeks of lab time. There is also a really interesting book by Dr Dobbs, "Dr Dobb's Toolbook of 68000 Programming." Wilcox contributed a couple of chapters to that one too. david day daday@umaecs.umass.edu
axaris@acsu.buffalo.edu (vassilios e axaris) (11/14/90)
I have been a teaching assistant for a software/hardware course using the 68k for 4 semesters and used a variety of books. The one for hardware design that I have found to be superior is Microprocessor Systems Design by Alan Clements. It is published by PWS (Boston) , and to my knowledge it is used widely as a text for 300 level design courses. It does cover the assembly language but not in depth while it emphasizes the design of memory, peripherals, e.t.c. Vassilios E. Axaris