Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <e4utgf$f21$1@rzsun03.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>,
John Selck  <selck_j@informatik.hgv-hamburg.de> wrote:
>Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> You can do that today, with GigaBytes of RAM available.  But doing it on
>> an Apple II, with 48k (or less) RAM is a waste of memory resources.
>
>Since you know what CPU your code is running on, nobody forces you to 
>keep both routines in memory.

Swapping pieces of code on/off to floppy disks would be QUITE slow... :-)

>> ...of course "10 times slower" doesn't matter much with today's fast
>> processors.  That's why Java has succeeded while UCSD Pascal failed,
>> even though they both built upon the same concept: portable binary code
>> which was to be interpreted on the target hardware.
>
>It depends on what you do. If you do lot's of graphics and sound stuff, 
>Java is definitely a bad choice.

In such a case, UCSD Pascal would be an even worse choice.....


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