16 bit 6502?! No, you don't want it... trust me!

From: Andrew Davie <adavie_at_mad.scientist.com>
Date: Sun Mar 1 08:03:05 1998

That's the dog I programmed. SNES.
A

-----Original Message-----
From: kroma <kroma_at_worldnet.att.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: 16 bit 6502?! No, you don't want it... trust me!


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>>Having spent 2 years programming the 65816, believe me you DON'T want to
>>play with a 16 bit 6502!!!! The memories, the memories.... There was a
>>processor dog if ever I saw one. Interpretation of opcodes was dependant
>on
>>the mode the processor was set to, and so if you branched to a section of
>>code when you were in the wrong mode, results were... screwy.
>>
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>(Getting off topic a bit)
>I believe Nintendo did pretty good with it in their second generation
>system, the "Super Nintendo."
>
> -- Kirk
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