more talking to the press.

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Nov 12 16:21:44 2003

>From: "ben franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
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>Hans Franke wrote:
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>> 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.
>

Hi
 I always thought the 6800 was the best thought out
instruction set for a 8 bitter.
Dwight

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