Re: 65816 & 8088's Memory

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message news:<ao6dncp9Aa0FhMqjXTWQkQ@giganews.com>...
> Okay, 6502/65c02/65816 have 256 byte size for stack, but x86 gives the
> flexible size for stack.  It can be 65536 byte size that we want to select.
> What about 680xx and PowerPC's stacks?  How many maximum size can stack
> support?

Hmm, I thought the 65816 could do a 64K stack. (I know the 65CE02 can)

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> Bryan Parkoff
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PS -

I don't think the 65816 has a flat memory model.  IIRC, it's segmented
but not in the same respect as the 8088 - the segments are on 64K
boundaries, not on paragraph boundaries.  Correct me if I'm wrong ;)

-uso.