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Article #623874Re: What microprocessor is more powerful, the Z80 or 6502?
From: Quadibloc
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:40
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:40
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On Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 8:22:27 AM UTC-6, barr...@yahoo.com wrote: > Moot? Today there are billions of small devices quietly executing 6502 > machine code, and I am willing to speculate that the Z-80 isn't far off > that mark. > The 6809 was very sweet. Its descendants are even sweeter. That is all very well, but certainly given the expense of a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor, a power supply, and varioius ancilliary circuits, if one is going to plunk down the money for a computer to sit down at, and use for playing games, spreadsheet calculations, surfing the web, and so on, it's worth the money to invest in something more powerful than an 8-bit microprocessor. In fact, not only don't they make desktop computers or laptops with 8-bit processors these days, even *smartphones* are 32 or 64 bits, with hardware floating-point. Thus, while 8-bit processors do indeed carry out much useful work, they do so while hidden away, their instruction sets only seen by people working for OEMs behind the scenes. John Savard
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