Re: Terry's DRSSTC - Class Of Operation?

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Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

yep, 6502 with a great set of nuemonics, and for those of us even earlier
with 4004 and 8008 with its high and low level code for both address buss
and instructions. 6502 had zero page instructions and if you swapped out
zero pages for the length of your program, it ran very fast..IN THOSE DAYS..
and fixed length for all codes so timing could be used easily.
Ohio, mountainside,s100, Mitz Altair, and sinclair too.
cul brian f.

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> Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Terry,
> You're right about the 6502 in the C64. My brother worked for a software
> company in Silicon Valley way back when and wrote many games in assembly
> language on that processor for the Commodore. He then went to work for a
> modem company writing drivers for the same processor in their modems. Man,
> we've come a long way, BABY!!!
>
> All my assembly programming was on the Intel processors in IBM PC's. It's
> been so long ago now that I can hardly remember a thing about it. What a
> shame. Do you think it is like riding a bike? Maybe if I try, it will all
> come back to me! Later.
> Paul
> Think Positive
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:43 PM
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>
>  > Original poster: Terry Fritz
>
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>
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I used to program the 6502 in machine language on OSI machines in the
>  > 70's  Two bonus points to those that know who OSI is ;-))  I still have
the
>  > computer, but it might be worth more than all my modern PCs now :o))
>  >
>  > I think the C64 used the 6502 as well...
>  >
>  > But the little Rabbit RC3610 is more powerful by far and fits on one's
>  > thumb with all the ram, rom, I/O and runs $50...  It is C programmed
and
>  > can do full IEEE math as well as web and ethernet applications... Plus
I
>  > have three that I am not using for anything ;-))  One just has
128k/250k
>  > memory :-p but "maybe" it could handle this control thing :o)))
>  >
>  > But for now, the basic stamp works fine.  I programmed it last night to
>  > select from up to six programs so it can run all kinds of modes without
>  > reprogramming...  So I can run as just a "plain" coil or the 6000 BPS
>  > machine.  Maybe tonight I will get to test the super high BPS stuff.
If
>  > that looks cool, I may have to thing about making a super computer
>  > controller...
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  >         Terry
>  >
>  >
>  > At 05:12 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote:
>  >>Hi Dave,
>  >>
>  >>Now that sounds like a fun project idea!  I have a couple of old Apple
>  >>II+'s hanging around that still work.  Overclock it and if it takes a
hit,
>  >>no great loss.
>  >>
>  >>David E Weiss
>  >>
>  >>>Original poster: <mailto:Davetracer@xxxxxxx>Davetracer@xxxxxxx
>  >>>Personally I'd be tempted to try a 6502 processor. The thing is darn
near
>  >>>a RISC, gets stuff done in 1-3 cycles, and is now available in up to
20
>  >>>Mhz versions. You can code in assembly or use many a different
language
>  >>>for it. (6502's are commonly used as dedicated micros in modems to do
>  >>>stuff like on-the-fly compression).
>  >>>
>  >>>     -- thanks,
>  >>>
>  >>>     Dave
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >
>  >
>  >
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