Greg Ewing wrote:
> Back when I used to spend long blissful evenings hand-assembling Z80
> programs [1] I got the impression that Z80 code was more compact than
> 6502 code, being able to manipulate 16-bit values with single
> instructions in many cases. Whether it was actually faster I don't
> know, but I suspect it was, as long as you stuck to the 8080-like core
> instructions which didn't take ridiculous numbers of cycles to
> execute.
I got the impression as soon as you needed 16 bit anything
all 8 bit CPU's suck. The 6809 don't count of course :)
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Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
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Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 13:10:50 GMT