Re: /etc/disktab on vax

On 07/03/2012 08:40 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 02:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> The 6502, which was the popular contemporary CPU to compare against,
>> did do about one instruction per clock cycle, which is why there was
>> somewhat of an equivalence between a 4 MHz Z80 and a 1 MHz 6502.
>    The 6502's register starvation negated a lot of that performance gain,
> however.
Clever use of zero page could solve much of that.
Not unlike the Nova which also had a fast-lane for zero page.

-- Ragge