Re: ZipGS 12MHz on ROM 01?

[philip@labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

Critical Mass writes:

>How is it a simplified version of a 16-bit computer?  In native mode, it uses
>a 16-bit accumulator, 16-bit registers, and a 16-bit stack.  Which among those
>suggests a less than 16-bit architechture?

  Well, if we want to get nit-picky, it also needs to have a 16-bit bus in
order to be called a 16-bit processor.  But hey, when it only adds an extra
cycle per instruction to fetch 16-bits, who cares? :-)



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