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From: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Forth and others (Was Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??)
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:

> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>> 6502 could access the first page using an 8-bit immediate offset.
>
> Ah ok, similar but not quite the same issue.  Thanks.  I never
> programmed the 6502 in assembler but I remember people who did
> discussing putting the frequently accessed stuff on the first page, due
> to hoops needed to get to the higher pages.

(I have done 6502 assembly programming)

Not really hoops. The 6502 could do direct indexed addressing, it's just
that using the zero-page methods were faster and more flexible. 

Mart

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