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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Computer languages on the various Apple Corp computers
Message-ID: <10313@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 May 89 20:33:54 GMT
References: <8905211959.AA07195@crash.cts.com> <2821@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2821@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>65816 doesn't have ops that are as powerful as, say, the 68000, but, gee, isn't
>that what RISC is all about?

The 65816 is by no reasonable stretch of the concept an implementation
of a "RISC" architecture.  RISC != underpowered.

The main drawbacks to implementing compilers and run-time support for
the 65816 are that its memory segmentation is way too visible.