Multiplying and Dividing on the 6502 (2021)

Re:Multiplying and Dividing on the 6502 (2021) by dwheeler on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @04:44PM (#31912778)

Absolutely true, there were and are MANY compilers for the 6502.

However, the 6502 was a challenge to implement high-level languages on, IF you also wanted speed and small code size. But since the 6502s were slow compared to modern chips, and could only address 64KiB directly, you typically also wanted speed and small size.

I posted some links to some approaches here: https://dwheeler.com/6502/

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Re:Multiplying and Dividing on the 6502 (2021) by buescher on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:51PM (#31913507)

I always thought Action! was very crisply tailored to these small systems. It turns out to have been a port of a language called Micro-SPL from the Xerox Alto that (originally) targeted the Alto microcode directly.

Atalan and Plasma look nice.

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