[Coco] Kicking the Z-80 butts...

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz bathory at maltedmedia.com
Tue Apr 28 15:49:25 EDT 2015


On Tue, April 28, 2015 9:24 am, CoCo Demus wrote:
> Who needs a Z-80 anyway ???

Ha! Okay, can I bit?

It's kind of an unfair comparison as the 6809 is really a 16-bit machine on an
8-bit bus. Take out those 16-bit structures and you're pretty much left with a
6502 -- the most elegant processor of all time, I think.

My first published article was in "Byte" in 1979: "Relative Subroutines for
the Z-80", emulating the 6502's behavior.

Now give a Z-80 a 16-bit internal structure...

No, don't answer me! :) :)

Dennis




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