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Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions
In article <e56rj1$7lo$1@merope.saaf.se>,
pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> numbers for your number crunching stuff? Forget about Java then.... or
> does your hardware have 1-complement signed integers? Java requires
> integers to be 2-complement, i.e. you must then have some emulation layer
> on top of your native integer format - that's inefficient.
Seriously, has anyone used 1's complement arithmetic in the past 10-20
years or so? And why?