Re: 6502 stack register at reset

From: Francesco Messineo <*francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com*> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 18:46:45 +0100 Message-ID: <CAESs-_ygF9U9M4fYC5UcM2zOS80VgbHEJmvarfk7jhiFBJ6-OA@mail.gmail.com> · francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Michał Pleban <lists@michau.name> wrote:
> smf wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I've never been sure if the person who came up with the idea of
>> using the cpu stack for the basic stack deserves an award or commiting
>> to a mental institute.
>
> Wasn't that Bill Gates?

I don't know who, but keep in mind that some machines had like 3583
bytes free for basic and probably using the CPU stack for basic stack
made a lot of sense.

Frank

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