Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System
Date	2024-10-02 22:28 +0000
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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.

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  Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:15 -0700
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:21 -0700
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-02 16:35 +0000
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 09:49 -0700
        Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-02 22:28 +0000
          Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 15:59 -0700
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-02 18:07 -0700
        Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-03 01:46 +0000
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-02 18:07 -0700
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-10-03 16:27 +0000
        Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 21:44 +0000
  Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-10-02 16:43 +0000
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-02 17:59 +0100
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-02 22:28 +0000
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-02 18:07 -0700
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-03 01:38 +0000
    Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-10-03 16:34 +0000
      Re: The "Good" Old Days - Complete Specs for DX-10 Operating System Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-10-03 17:02 +0000
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