register-impoverished childhoods was Re: Z80 TRAP and CP/M

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > > E.g., if you are writing code for a 68xx, you have little choice
> > > but to do everything in memory addressing.
> >
> > Or a 6502. I don't know what to *do* with all the other registers on
> > other architectures. ^_^;;
> 
> OTOH on one of those *I* don't know what to do with all of those addressing 
> modes...   :-)
> 
> Or,  I guess,  you could conceivably look at that page zero stuff as 
> "registers".  Is there any standardization for how those are used at all?

Not much. Although Microsoft BASIC-based 6502 microcomputers (Apple II and
most Commodores, for example) have some similarities in their zero page usage,
they don't have much in common, and 6502-systems that aren't Microsoft BASIC
based (Ataris, etc.) look totally different.

Even between Commodores this usage changed, sometimes radically.

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