Request from Intel's Museum

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Tue Oct 8 21:15:00 2002

Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>>Or even a 64 bit-wide Z80 :)
>
>
> I'd like a 64-bit 6502 myself. Someone is working on a 32-bit one, however.
>

*** Cough gag cough ***
The lovable 8 bit cpu's were designed for 8 bits only. I am a strong beliver
in large word lengths but not in 7 bit character data like ASCII was. 9,10,12
bits make nice 'byte' sized data and still give reasonable memory space as 64kb
we now know is too small for real use. 64kb code and data space will give you
a nice but limited software basebase. B&W screen resulution of about 640 x 400
is a full 64k too. I figure a real computer needs to have a well designed
instruction set and 8 bits don't cut it.
Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 21:15:00 BST