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Comment by rbanffy

13 years ago

The minimum time of an instruction to execute on the 6502 was 2 clock cycles. The maximum is 7, IIRC. On the Z80, it's 4, with the maximum being about 30.

This has, of course, little to do with the width of the ALU.

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