Not a whole lot larger (not twice). In fact, the percent larger is probably
about the same as the percent better of the execution speed. While that may
be a tradeoff the designer thinks he wants, I believe he limits himself in the
future rather rapidly. 640K barriers have a way of sticking around.
Code size is probably minimized at 8 bits, since that fits characters so well.
But, who would want to code to it, and what kind of overall system speed
could we get?
Billy
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