A Bird in the Hand (PolyModular)

[jbv]

Gene Zumchak :

> 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.

(...)

>     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.

I'll agree 500% on the above. Nothing could be more true.
For the last 3 years I've been using various uCs, and every time
I found myself wishing each of them featured the indexing modes of the 6502...

jbv