A Bird in the Hand (PolyModular)

[Gene Zumchak]

> WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>
> > There are probably a hundred
> > different microproccesor chips that would be faster, groovier, sexier, and
> > more elegant than the 6502,
>

IMNSHO this is not true at all.  The 6502 was the first micro to employ pipeling, a
full decade before other figured it out.  The addressing and indexing schemes of the
6502 were the most elegant and advanced of any micro and to this day have not been
duplicated.  Even the Motorola 68HC12 which I am presently using fell short.  The
indexing schemes of the 6502 effectively permitted up to 128 pointer registers
residing in zero page.  With the 6502 you could perform N-dimensional indexing with a
single index register.  With an Intel type processor you would have to constantly
increment, use, store and retrieve stored index values for N dimensions making it N
times longer and N times slower.

    To say that there are probably a hundred different microprocessor chips that
would be faster groovier, sexier and more elegant than the 6502 is sheer nonsense.
Sorry, Mike.  Nothing before or since has ever been more elegant.  I have been
designing with micros since 1972 and used practically all of them.  The 6502 has no
equal.  PERIOD.  It's just too bad that it was never made by a big semi vendor like
TI or National or Motorola etc.

Gene Z.