27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
6:38 a.m.
Although according to the author the 6502 can address
65K, not 64K.
This is very common, and is based on an assumption of 'k' meaning
1000 (decimal), not 1024 - 16 bit bus - 65535 bytes (65 thousand).
I've seen it in data sheets and other reasonably technically accurate
material - I guess it depends on your point of view (and how low-level
your experience is :-)
Hard drive manufacturers have been doing the same thing with "meg"
for years - specing in decimal 1,000,000 makes the drive sound bigger
than specing in 2**20 sized blocks.
Cheers,
Dave
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