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@niclas @lupyuen The 68k also had a "lot" of "accumulator" registers compared to other CPUs of the time (also a "lot" of index registers) and even back then RAM access was costly

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Practically all applications that I wrote in those days were hampered by the 64kB segmentation crap. Very few programs would fit in the TINY (data+pgm < 64kB) and SMALL (data < 64kB, pgm < 64kB) memory models that the compilers offered. I made most in MEDIUM (pgm < 64kB), but a couple in LARGE.

It must have been one of the most costly decisions imposed on the programmers at the time.

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