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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)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic0AdTOedxfVE6MJf4uVRBGZrA0oaV8ejw7G2DNNWMRk8Q@mail.gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-04 22:47 UTC|newest]

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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