Re: How complex is the 6502?

[borchert@i50s19.ira.uka.de (Volker Borchert)]

In article <2bt96o$ns0@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, zcaa1122@rpool9.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer) writes:
|> >You need an instruction decoder (probably microcoded, so you could do
|> >it with a bipolar PROM and a few support chips).
|> 
|> Is the 6502 microcoded? This would be a surprise to me, though I frankly
|> don't know.

No, it's not. But microcoding would be easier for the model, as you can
change the control unit's operation more easily.

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