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This is what happens when we stray beyond the true path: 6502.


the 6809 was better


16-bit arithmetic? Sheer luxury! Every morning we had to wake up at midnight, rewrite all our math routines from scratch, then our manager would kill us all with a machete and dance on our graves! And we liked that just fine.


IDK might be some danger lurking in all those extra instructions :)


Just patch your compiler/macro assembler to insert HCF instruction before any conditional control flow instructions.


If you're worried about extra instructions, the DEC PDP-8 has half as many as the 6502.




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