[NBLUG/talk] Bare metal question

Daniel Smith linux2002 at daniel.org
Sun May 25 12:24:00 PDT 2003


>
>Did the 6502 have an accumulator as well?
>(effectively, 3 general purpose registers.)
>

Ding!  yep:
http://www.6502.org/datasheets/datasheets.php

Specifically:
http://www.6502.org/datasheets/w65c02s.pdf

You are correct.  Brings the total register count up to 3!

Ever wonder what would have happened to the computer
industry if processor design had not advanced, but
we 20ghz 6502's instead? :-)

Daniel

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