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2006-01-24
I did some brief programming on the 65816 back in the day (it was used in the Super Nintendo amongst others).
I remember going like 'yay, a 6502 with 16-bit registers!', unfortunately as I recall there were no separate opcodes for using 8 or 16 bit registers so instead you had to switch between 8/16-bit by setting a 'mode' bit in the status register with rep,sep instructions which quickly became tedious.