>How can you have a table larger then 256 entries, if you
>begun with an 8-bit "index" in the first place ? Well, you
>could, but only accessing the even (or odd) entries, I'd guess...

Exactly, as the entries are 16 bit values. have done exactly this to index
into text strings stored in ROM, although I did not have more than a handful
of strings, but did the full calculation so I was not tied down to locating
things on page boundaries.

But yes, take your point about the 256 limit, in that I had a potential for
256 16 bit values which I had to retrieve using 2 accesses into the table,
thereby having 512 potential entries in the table accessed by one 8 bit
pointer.

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