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Re:Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates by quicklyfrozen on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:06PM (#23137507)
Doesn't sound that easy to me. You'd need an efficient way to forget all those memoized values on each program edit, and every byte of program storage counted when memory size was a whopping 4K.
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Re:Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates by ncmncm on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:30AM (#23139414)
Trust me, it would be easy. They could all be erased on the first edit, in time not noticeable.

Essentially the same code would have been in each interpreter, so written just twice. The space for the code to do it would be in ROM, so would not take up any of your precious 4k.

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