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      3 years ago

      Yes! They were originally going to use an 8-bit CPU but had to change the design for some reason. It had 64k of addressable memory space, some of which was mapped to I/O and video and whatnot, I’d guess the memory scheme you’re talking about is how it took two clock cycles to read or write a 16-bit data byte on the CPU.