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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (18327)	4/2/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Keith- More programming talk killing time until MSFT's next day in court. I haven't done any x86 assembler for a while either but it's all register maniplation., so if both operands are outside the 64k address space two loads and two pops are required, one operand outside= one load and one pop. The examples I gave are 16 bit where: op code 16 bit address 8d 46 e8 lea ax,WORD PTR I suspect that when I finally get MSFT 32 application studio running ($16.50 VS 4.21 what a bloated mess) I will see op code 32 bit address 8d 46 e8 aa aa lea ax,WORD PTR Which means more overhead and slower performance (i.e. bigger programs run slower). This is compensated for in some operations: double word math that can be performed in one operation rather than 2 single words operations in addition to some kind of overflow operation within a 16 bit OS. As far as scaler processing, a small footprint program will benefit from it also so the relative advantage should remain the same. The purpose of this whole exposition is that you have to be careful in accepting all the marketing hype "Newer is always better" and do some investigation first. It's as if the computer indutry is run by ex-used car salesmen with no mechanics to refute them. Harvey P.S. I missed the Z-80. My computer collection starts with a KIM-1 (6502 CPU). Sometimes I put the board next to the latest Pentium board and marvel how far we've gone in the last 20 years.