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Unlike modern chips with cache hierarchies and the like, the 65816 is designed to run in lock step with the memory it’s accessing. A faster CPU would have neces
by wk_end 3y ago
Unlike modern chips with cache hierarchies and the like, the 65816 is designed to run in lock step with the memory it’s accessing. A faster CPU would have necessitated faster RAM in the system and faster ROMs on the carts too. Games were expensive enough as it was, then.
- Dwedit 3y agoN64 would be the first Nintendo home console to use a cache. Then Nintendo DS was the first Nintendo handheld to use a cache.