8 Feb
2003
8 Feb
'03
2:37 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
The original claim back in 1975 that the 6502 (and
fmaily) was pipelined
was probably intended as a comparison to the other microprocessors of
the time, especially the somewhat similar 6800, which took more clock
cycles to do most operations, because it did not have even the small amount
of pipelining of the 6502.
A hidden gotya is the index registers are 8 bits. No problem
for small dedicated control but somthing that limited high
level languages to Basic and Pascal p-code.
Ben.