Re: What microprocessor is more powerful, the Z80 or 6502?

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:00

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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:

> Isn't a 6809 considered an 8-bit CPU with a lot of 16-bit features? May
> be like a 68000 is a 16-bit CPU with some 32-bit features?

	The Motorola engineer who came to talk to us about the 6809 and
actually talked about the 68000, which had come off the company
confidential list so recently that the documents still had the security
legends, gave the strong impression that the 6809 was deliberate practice
for the 68000 which is what they wanted to do but weren't ready for.

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