Roy J. Gromlich wrote:
> As I said, I can't understand why they fixed almost all of the
> other addressing oddities and left the Page Register in there.

Banking is there for the same reaons it's used most other places: it saves
bits in the instruction word.  There is a tradeoff between how "nice" the
address space looks to the programmer and dollars/chip.  There is a lot of
price pressure and competition on microcontrollers, so every penny of cost
is significant.  I think Microchip hit this one about right.


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