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Re: /etc/disktab on vax



On 07/03/2012 02:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> The 6502, which was the popular contemporary CPU to compare against,
> did do about one instruction per clock cycle, which is why there was 
> somewhat of an equivalence between a 4 MHz Z80 and a 1 MHz 6502.

  The 6502's register starvation negated a lot of that performance gain,
however.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA




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