Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!crash!pro-gsplus.cts.com!rhood From: rhood@pro-gsplus.cts.com (Robert Hood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: 65816 Message-ID: <2823@crash.cts.com> Date: 26 May 90 10:16:13 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: message from gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL > In article <1675@batman.moravian.EDU> nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) writes: > -One of the 'other' first WDM instructions I vote for is a reduced cycle-count > -MVN/MVP that really DOES work across bank boundaries. Next, I vote for > -a reduced cycle-count move instruction which can move more than 64k. > -I have also wanted [sr,S],y for a long time. > > I didn't think there were any opcodes left.. WDM is a pseudo-opcode; it doesn't do anything. This is the path Mensch chooses for expandability: two-byte opcodes. +--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | Robert Hood - programmer | InterNet: rhood@pro-gsplus.cts.com | | RH 880 | ProLine: rhood@pro-gsplus (or) pro-gsplus!rhood | +--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+