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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: PDP-8 Story
Message-ID: <540@terak.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 17:15:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 17:15:30 1985
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> 	16 bit memory
> 	65K fields
> 	256 fields (yields 24Mb memory)
> 	each field broken to 256 256 word pages
> 	direct addressing mode (so arryas and stuff don't have to be paged)
> 	built in extended AU
> 	other goodies.
> 
> 	Oh Yeah, a stack would be quite useful.

Almost sounds like my recollection of the (mythical) Western Design
Center WDC65SC816, the 16-bit extension of the 6502.

Also, you can treat the NS32000 CPUs pretty much that way, but not with
the standard assembler unless you like to code repetitive options on
every instruction.  The assembler was written by an HLL weenie who
couldn't imagine using the registers in any non-HLL, non-relocatable
fashion.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
               ^^^^^--- soon to be CalComp