[sdiy] Radfio Shack

john mahoney jmahoney at gate.net
Sat Oct 23 06:08:41 CEST 2004


> > The neat thing about 6502/6510 (or 6809E for that matter) is that
you
> > just take two, clock them 180° out of phase, route each of them to
the
> > common bus during PHI2=1, and instantly get a dual-processor
system.
>
> Are there particular advantages to this approach that I'm not
seeing?

You can share only a *portion* of the memory space. Potential uses
include sharing status info, sharing data (wavetables, for example),
or passing data between processors. Meanwhile, the 2 CPUs run their
programs in parallel universes.
--
john




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