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This is the R.O.M.E.68000 Manual version 0.51.
This is an experimental version.
Copyright © 1997 by G. Mezzetti; last update: January 1, 1999.


2. Two Basic Values

The R.O.M.E.68000 virtual processor has an addressing space of 65536 locations; addresses run from 0 (hexadecimal 0000) to 65535 (hexadecimal FFFF). Each location holds 64 bits. Thus, the memory array could be depicted in this way:

Figure 1: The memory array

Remember that, as in traditional CW, the addresses ``wrap around'' so that address 65535 comes right before address 0; in other words, the addressing space can be represented as a circle. This should not be unfamiliar to you, since the addressing space of any processor behaves the same way!


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