From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 17:47:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBdycBp+Gj3395kgNZ_ZghJsEtHa-KePkg2H1wPE5U6_wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 17:40 Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm probably Stockholm Syndrommed about 6502. It's what I grew up on, and
> I still like it a great deal. Admittedly register-starved (well, unless
> you consider the zero page a whole page of registers), but...simple, easy
> to fit in your head, kinda wonderful.
>
> I'd love a 64-bit 6502-alike (but I'd probably give it more than three
> registers). I mean given how little silicon (or how few FPGA gates) a
> reasonable version of that would take, might as well include 65C02 and
> 65816 cores in there too with some sort of mode-switching instruction.
> Wouldn't a 6502ish with 64-bit wordsize and a 64-bit address bus be fun?
> Throw in an onboard MMU and FPU too, I suppose, and then you could have a
> real system on it.
>
>
Sounds like a perfect project for an FPGA. If there's already a 6502
implementation out there, converting to 64 bit should be fairly easy.
-Henry
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-29 10:49 [TUHS] AT&T 3B1 - Emulation available Arnold Robbins
2021-01-29 13:49 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-29 14:37 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-31 7:57 ` arnold
2021-01-31 8:41 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-03 7:53 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 7:59 ` arnold
2021-02-03 8:53 ` Ed Bradford
2021-02-03 8:58 ` arnold
2021-02-03 10:13 ` Ed Bradford
2021-02-03 14:58 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-03 15:33 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-03 16:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 0:41 ` [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode John Gilmore
2021-02-04 0:52 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 1:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-04 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 1:47 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 1:57 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 7:23 ` Arno Griffioen
2021-02-04 11:28 ` Toby Thain
2021-02-04 15:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-04 16:03 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-04 21:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 22:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-04 22:39 ` Adam Thornton
2021-02-04 22:47 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-02-05 14:42 ` Michael Parson
2021-02-04 22:56 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-04 23:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-04 1:35 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 2:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 15:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-05 2:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-05 2:53 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 1:14 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 1:20 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 14:56 ` John Cowan
2021-02-03 15:20 ` [TUHS] AT&T 3B1 - Emulation available emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 16:48 ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-03 10:46 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 11:13 ` arnold
2021-02-05 12:44 ` Sergio Pedraja
2021-02-07 7:32 ` arnold
2021-02-17 16:07 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-17 22:00 ` Ed Carp
2021-02-17 22:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-18 1:30 ` Ed Carp
2021-02-18 7:59 ` arnold
2021-02-18 18:07 ` Brad Spencer
2021-02-13 1:06 [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode Jason Stevens
2021-02-13 2:30 ` Gregg Levine
2021-02-13 4:34 Jason Stevens
2021-02-13 6:05 ` Toby Thain
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