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Re: What do we need for a "How to program the X16" book?

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:20 am
by Ed Minchau
voidstar wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 12:27 am The C is just for CMOS, right? Lower power and such? So subtle electrical differences, and who-knows-what "undocumented opcode" differences.

http://wilsonminesco.com/NMOS-CMOSdif/
I don't think there are any undocumented opcodes on the 816. They used all of them.

Re: What do we need for a "How to program the X16" book?

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 3:05 am
by Xiphod
What!? How can you use 255 opcodes and still be called RISC :P j/k (it's not) It's at least uniform instruction length? Sorting through the dynamic instruction length of the now-ancient System/3 was a pain.

Re: What do we need for a "How to program the X16" book?

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:29 am
by Ed Minchau
voidstar wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 3:05 am What!? How can you use 255 opcodes and still be called RISC :P j/k (it's not) It's at least uniform instruction length? Sorting through the dynamic instruction length of the now-ancient System/3 was a pain.
Nah. In fact, depending on operating mode, the same command can be two or three bytes, or some are three or four bytes.