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Floopy
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FriedOrange79 wrote:It sounds like the textbook author could have invented those terms. I'd suggest that it's basically a shorthand way of saying the 8080 has more registers and the instruction set is geared more towards doing operations on the registers; while the 6800 has only two accumulators and one index register, so the programmer must rely upon the memory more. The 'register-oriented' versus 'memory-oriented' distinction isn't really a dichotomy (such as von Neumann versus Harvard architecture), just a way of boiling down the differences between those two CPUs.
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FriedOrange79 wrote:I don't know, but I do know that it was the first computer ever to sell 1 million units.
When exactly did Commodore announce this number? Mid 1982s as a picture (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... _VIC20.jpg) to be found in Wikipedia suggests or at the winter CES in January 1983 (InfoWorld reporting)?

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