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Computer architecture with addressable bytes
Byte addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast to word-addressable architectures, word machines, that access data by word. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Byte addressingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: WiscSort: External Sorting for Byte-Addressable StorageInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Z80 microprocessorThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Address-encoded byte orderCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Memory addressA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Addressing modeA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
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📚 Books worth reading
The Z80 microprocessorRamesh S. Gaonkar · 1988
The Z-80 microcomputer handbookWilliam T. Barden · 1978
Programming the M68000Tim King · 1983- 📕Unix System V Release 3.2 Network Programmer's GuideAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1988
6502 assembly language subroutinesLance A. Leventhal · 1982
Z80 assembly language subroutinesLance A. Leventhal · 1983
Machine language for beginnersRichard Mansfield · 1983
Advanced machine code programming for the Commodore 64A. P. Stephenson · 1984
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