Re: Discussion: The need of a 65xx HAL

From: Michal Pleban <lists_at_michau.name>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 20:13:45 +0200
Message-ID: <5f4045dc-e640-b313-986c-ef3e041dbb18_at_michau.name>
tokafondo_at_tokafondo.name wrote on 03.09.2022 22:24:

> But there is no other limitation for the existence of more registers, bigger memory addressing capacity [...]

Actually, there is. Adding more registers, addressing modes etc means 
that the list of opcodes gets longer than 256, so you need to use more 
than one byte for each opcode. That means much longer programs and much 
more complicated opcode decoding.

Regards,Michau.
Received on 2022-09-04 22:00:04

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