[Coco] Coco 3 Memory Map Questions
L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Sun Feb 7 17:25:11 EST 2016
Isn't the 16 bit access to memory more for the GIME, for accessing graphics memory to send to the screen?
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> On Feb 7, 2016, at 3:59 PM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/7/2016 12:57 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>> RETRO Innovations wrote:
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>> I'll try to answer these questions although I'm not sure I know just what you meant by some of them. If you don't already have a copy, get the Tandy Coco3 service manual, #26-3334. There are .pdf copies.
> Looked over my copy before posting, and yes, it is a fine resource.
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>> Since the cpu has 16-bit registers, it make sense for memory to be accessed at that width.
> That doesn't make sense to me. The 6809 data path is 8 bits wide, regardless of the width of internal registers. Just like the 68008 used an 8 bit data path even though the registers were 16 and 32 bits wide.
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