[Gllug] Re: Dual core AMDs

[Nix]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Rich Walker said:
> Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>>> Rich Walker wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > You mean "256 registers, one accumulator, two index offset registers, and
>>> > the ability to use any adjacent pair of registers for indirect
>>> > addressing" is enough for anyone, shurely?
>>
>> Now, correct me if I am wrong but these "256 registers" - what you
>> really mean is the first 256 bytes of RAM? Sounds like a bit of
>> sophistry to me
> 
> No, it was the standard programming model. (Well, for *sane* programmers...)

Real Programmers made up fake instructions instead. (The 6502 was RISC
before RISC was cool, only they didn't document it.)

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