m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) (04/18/89)
Could anyone explain to me why the 65816 was given all those nifty-neato features and they didn't make the stack a full 24 bits?!?!?! << MCT >> BCS Apple/Boston Connection [MCT] (617) 893-5681 GEnie M.Tiernan AppleLinkPE M Tiernan BCS Net Michael Tiernan obsolete!pro-angmar!m.tiernan@bloom-beacon.mit.edu obsolete!pro-angmar!m.tiernan@bu-it.bu.edu pro-angmar!m.tiernan@obsolete.uucp m.tiernan@pro-angmar.cts.com
shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) (04/19/89)
m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) writes: >Could anyone explain to me why the 65816 was given all those nifty-neato >features and they didn't make the stack a full 24 bits?!?!?! I think the main reason for the strange confinements of the stack has something to do with the fact that the emulation mode stack has to be in bank zero. Not being a hardware hacker, I'm not sure if that's true. Also not being a hardware hacker, I'm wishing they would have used a 24-bit pointer too. UUCP: {uunet!rosevax, amdahl!bungia, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!shawn INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com