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Article #623868Re: What microprocessor is more powerful, the Z80 or 6502?
From: Gordon Henderson
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:10
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:10
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In article <87po13w...@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >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. >From my own practical 1st hand experience of writing shed-loads of both 6502 and Z80 code, I'd say that typical systems were about the same - however a typical 6502 was 1Mhz and a typical Z80 was 4Mhz, so clock for clock the 6502 was faster. I preferd the 6502 though and still use it to this day. (at 14Mhz now though) Gordon
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