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Article #623843What microprocessor is more powerful, the Z80 or 6502?
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:17
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:17
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Back in the late 70s and mid 80s you could chose between a Z80 and 6502, when it came to 8-bit home computers. Sure there where some micros using a M6809 (almost 16-bit) and some 8080 CPUs. But most of the micros then ran a 6502 or Zilog Z80. Which one is more powerful, not regarding custom chips taking load off the CPU, like early "GPUs" chips in the Commodore 64? I say the Z80 was. It could pair some 8bit registers to 16bit entities. It also already had some kind of primitives like the later 8086 and all future microprocessors had the 6502 lacked, speeding up things and made programming in assembly easier. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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