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Memory Organization

  Every memory cell holds a 16 bit word. This is different to common systems like personal computers. There are 64k words addressable making it 128kb. ASCII values are stored as 16 bit values as well, so no 8 bit access methods are known to the processor.



Markus Hennecke
9/14/2003