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Article #623871Re: What microprocessor is more powerful, the Z80 or 6502?
From: Quadibloc
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 04:06
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 04:06
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On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 9:59:53 PM UTC-6, barr...@yahoo.com wrote: > Maybe we all have a different point of view regarding the definition > of "powerful". That could be. But the Z-80 had extended instructions that other 8-bit microprocessors did not: block copy, byte search, 16-bit arithmetic instructions. While the Z-80 had a lot of fancy features, though, the 6809, which came along later, would have been significantly more powerful yet - as it had a hardware *multiply* instruction, even if it wasn't crammed with as many bells and whistles as the Z-80, most programs would run considerably faster on the 6809 as a result of that. John Savard
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