How CPU's work (was Re: Hi, I'm new...)

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 11:11 am, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > The z80 added stuff I've never personally found
> > all that useful otherwise,  and have never used the index registers (yet)
> > or the alternate set,  all that much.
>
>    I like the index registers; I use them with some frequency.

What sort of stuff do you do with them?

> The alternate register set, though...ugh.  It'd be much more useful if the
> designers had provided a way to determine which set is currently in use!

Agreed!

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