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Almost certainly not. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/26-bit_architectures https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/26-bit_architectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by peterfirefly 4y ago
Almost certainly not.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/26-bit_architectures https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/26-bit_architectures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-bit_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-bit_computing
Flags, processor mode, and the PC (24-bit) were kept in the same 32-bit word. That made it cheaper to store/restore on interrupt and, boy, did they want interrupt handling to be fast!
Combined with the requirement for naturally aligned instructions, this gives the original ARM a 26-bit address space for code. They chose to make that the address space for everything -- so the address space was 64MB.
The ARM926 came much later.