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Re:The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th by jws on Friday September 17, 2010 @08:34AM (#1700891)
BRK and NOP? Odd choice. 0x20 and 0x60 are still burned in my brain. (I couldn't afford the exotic "floppy disc drive" required to run the assembler, but the ROMs would disassemble what you entered so hand translating to machine code wasn't too bad.)
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Re:The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th by jacquesm on Friday September 17, 2010 @09:33AM (#1701065)
Nop to temporarily disable a call (nop, nop, nop that is), and BRK stop so I could have a look at what's going on. The reason I remember them is because those are the ones I would insert most often in binary rather than in code.
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