Re: [OT] 8-bit machines (was: double vs float vs int)

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

This makes me wonder if anyone has ever build a 6502-alike with the
first page as on-chip SRAM?

-joe


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:43:58 +0100, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 December 2004 22:12, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> > The CBM64.. can one call that a register 'set'?
> 
> Actually, the 6502 had a very smart RISC-like design, ahead of its time: it
> could use the first 256-byte memory 'page' (apart from the space used by the
> stack) as a register bank.
> (by the way, I learned C with a Manx compiler on an Apple II, complete with
> Unix-like environment)
> 
> The 16-bit 65816 also was an interesting CPU. Unfortunately, marketing counts
> lots more than technical prowess (the "Betamax effect") and, alas, this also
> applies to languages.
> 
>   Enrico
> 
> 


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