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Re: /etc/disktab on vax



On 07/03/2012 08:40 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
Clever use of zero page could solve much of that.
Not unlike the Nova which also had a fast-lane for zero page.

-- Ragge



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