[Coco] [Color Computer] Holy Mods Batman!

[Charles Richmond]

>--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "John R. Hogerhuis"

>      [snip...]          [snip...]          [snip...]

>The 6502 was too simple.  Building a compiler for it is a nightmare.

>Just check out how much code the cc65 compiler cranks out to do anything.

>

It is true that the 6502 is messy to code for. And the stack is 
restricted to 256 bytes and all. But the 6502 instruction set is very 
RISC-like...simple instructions that execute quickly. Instructions 
took from one to three clock cycles to execute. I believe that was 
*part* of the attraction of the 6502.

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