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Re:A Memo on the Secret Features of the Hitachi 6309 process... by mysterydip on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:49AM (#21497610)
Not memory addressing, but there is this "special reset" undocumented by Zilog but discovered from a patent http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/z80/z80_special_reset....
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Re:A Memo on the Secret Features of the Hitachi 6309 process... by GoForthAssemble on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:58AM (#21498151)
I remember this 'scene' was very exciting. Pre-Internet you had to be in the in-crowd (of nerds) on bulletin boards, or at a meet up to ever find out. It felt like a free upgrade to your processor! here's another that's quite good: http://z80.info/zip/z80-documented.pdf
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