@kolla
sorry i dont seem to find the post i was sure to be referring before, still tcl orthodox style of posting may make it over the top, and your discussion on 16/32 bit issue doesnt actually h3lp it. i understand that you might take your issue with less technically skilled, but there is a ladder to climb for everybody.
@wawrzon - I appreciate your calm and balanced approach to this discussion. When I see such obvious absurdity related to a subject I'm fairly passionate about, I tend to respond with flip sarcasm and over-exaggeration. However I take offense to the line "with less technically skilled". I'm sure everyone on this forum has their own levels of technical proficiency. I can't judge yours, you can't judge mine, etc.
Now on the discussion, so far on this thread we have seen tcl and kolla make statements that "The A600/68000 architecture is fully 32-bit, is only 32-bit, and will only ever be 32-bit". That it "can address a full 4GB of RAM". That Ibrowse and most other common Amiga productivity apps "require 2GB of memory". They've called OP "silly" for only including 64MB of memory in his A600 accelerator, completely ignoring that their designs are based on a well-defined cost/benefit analysis. They've called others "fools" and "dumbasses" for disagreeing with their statements, despite not offering a shred of documentary evidence to the contrary.
I'm not too old to learn. If I'm wrong, prove me wrong. Post a link to a whitepaper, or to the manual of Ibrowse showing where it says it "requires 2GB of memory". Surely that shouldn't be too hard to dig up, right? So far I have posted links and photos of technical documentation from Motorola/Freescale, Wikipedia, CPU-World, and even Commodore, backing up that the A500/A600-era 68000 architecture was considered 16/32-bit, even at that time. They've also seen OP post that he can easily enable 64-bit execution in their new FPGA cores (which is awesome and something I'd love to hear more about!). So far all they've posted has been opinion and conjecture.
This is a dumb argument and I have no dog in this fight, so I'll just close with a quote from one of my favorite movies, Interstellar:
"Alright Murph, you wanna talk science?
Don't just tell me that you're afraid of some ghost. No, you gotta go further.
You have to record the facts, analyze...
...get to the how and the why and present your conclusions. Deal?"
"Deal. -All right!"
#posted from my A2000 with 24MB of memory, and Ibrowse.
