On Tuesday 08 August 2006 11:11 am, Dave McGuire wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
The z80 added stuff I've never personally
found
all that useful otherwise, and have never used the index registers (yet)
or the alternate set, all that much.
I like the index registers; I use them with some frequency.
What sort of stuff do you do with them?
The alternate register set, though...ugh. It'd be
much more useful if the
designers had provided a way to determine which set is currently in use!
Agreed!
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