On 2009-09-26, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:22:51 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards ><inva...@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > >> >> EXX accomplised much of the context switch operation. I don't >> remember how much RAM was available, but it wasn't much... > > Zilog Z80... as with the rest of the "improved" 8080 family -- > 64kB address space...
Right. I meant I didn't recall how much RAM was available in that particular product. Using the shadow register set to store context is limiting when compared to just pushing everything onto the stack and then switching to another stack, but that does require more RAM. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
