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STRONGLY disagree. ANY assembler can calculate the EXACT number of clock cycles required by any instruction. I do it by hand all the time and it doesn't require any intelligence (why do I get the strange feeling I just insulted myself?). The assembler has to index into a table to get an opcode for a given instruction/addressing mode, it could just as easily pick up a cycle count at the same point. Your comments about "some bright engineer" fixing a problem don't apply at all… we must be talking about two different things here, maybe? Rick