What was that mystic Commodore 6509 computer?

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sun Jun 2 09:35:16 2002

Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> On the 6509, there are four extra address lines, giving you up to 1MB.
> These lines are set by location $0000 for execution (which 64K "bank" the
> code is running from) and by location $0001 for indirection (i.e., on
> indirect indexed LDAs and STAs *only* the four bits in $01 would be
> asserted on the address lines to get at another bank). Not quite segment
> and offset addressing. :-)

And the 8086 segment addressing is a improvement?
The only clean 8 bit extended addressing was with the 6809 and OS/9
level Two.
Here you had 16 pages ( 4kb-each ) of virtual memory ,if I remember
right, per
processes with the upper 256 bytes common memory.
-- 
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Sun Jun 02 2002 - 09:35:16 BST

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