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I very successfully built a "truly-compiled FORTH" on a 6502 machine – it actually generated subroutines – and I know that there were several TIL-based dialects for it also. Although the 6502 had some rather unique addressing capabilities, the fact that it only had three CPU registers and that two of them were only for addressing meant that it usually took quite a few more instructions to do things vs. other chips like the Z-80. Not what you want when you've only got 64K.

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Re^4: 6502 Perl
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 14, 2019 at 02:21 UTC
    The 6502 had a zero page addressing mode for the first 256 bytes. One could use this space as pseudo registers.

    An MMU switching between 64k memory blocks would need to preserve them "globally" to allow data transfer.

    This wouldn't be very fast and only a reasonable approach for a MacGyver scenario.

    Like if a strange natural disaster or God's will burnt all newer CPUs and miraculously spared only the 6502s family of processors ;-)

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