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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: And another thing! (65816)
Message-ID: <979@orbit.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 89 04:25:17 GMT
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m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) writes:
>Could anyone explain to me why the 65816 was given all those nifty-neato
>features and they didn't make the stack a full 24 bits?!?!?!

I think the main reason for the strange confinements of the stack has
something to do with the fact that the emulation mode stack has to be in bank
zero.  Not being a hardware hacker, I'm not sure if that's true.  Also not
being a hardware hacker, I'm wishing they would have used a 24-bit pointer
too.

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