16 bit 6502?! No, you don't want it... trust me! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Mar 1998

That's the dog I programmed.  SNES.
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-----Original Message-----
From: kroma &lt;kroma(a)worldnet.att.net&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: 16 bit 6502?! No, you don't want it... trust me!

...

 Having spent 2 years programming the 65816,
believe me you DON'T want to
play with a 16 bit 6502!!!!   The memories, the memories....  There was a
processor dog if ever I saw one.  Interpretation of opcodes was dependant on
 the mode the processor was set to, and so if you
branched to a section of
code when you were in the wrong mode, results were... screwy.
 <snip>

(Getting off topic a bit)
I believe Nintendo did pretty good with it in their second generation
system, the "Super Nintendo."

        -- Kirk