more talking to the press.

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Nov 12 16:07:59 2003

Hans Franke wrote:

> Now, beeing a 6502 Geek from the beginning and a long
> time 8086 assembly programmer, I can't realy follow
> that. The 8086 is in my eyes one of the finest designs
> around. What I realy dislike is the Z80 ... if there
> was ever a CPU with an instruction set designed using
> a random number generator, it's the Z80!

I dislike them both, but both CPU's have the 8080 as the
founding father. As a 16 bit CPU the 8086 is great,it
is/was the stupid memory management that they used was
the killer for me.
Received on Wed Nov 12 2003 - 16:07:59 GMT