22 Nov
2002
22 Nov
'02
10:42 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I did not say General purpose computing can't be done,
just that it is a very small amount of memory for most
user programs. It is really hard work to have a useful
programs written on the small 8 bit machines, and fit
in 32k or 48k of memory incuding the OS.
PS use 6809's rather than 6502's. :)
In hindsight we
now know that 16 bits is too small a
addressing range for a general purpose byte/word cpu's
I can't believe someone actually said this on *this* list. I think I'll go
throw out all my 6502-based systems since they're so pointless for general
purpose computing.