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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 22:28:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 17:59:40 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> The 6502 was an excellent little beast. I never programmed one myself,
> but I know people who did,  and my friend who worked on the original
> Acorn machines said it was pretty fast compared with a Z80 etc

The 6502 got its speed by restricting itself to 8-bit addressing in a lot 
of places. E.g. the stack was limited to 256 bytes and had to be located 
in memory page 1. The Z80, on the other hand, allowed for full 16-bit 
addresses in a lot more places.