Fw: [sdiy] Anybody using Atmel AVR?

[Phil Harbison]

Jaroslaw Ziembicki wrote:
>> Now for a real challenge,  what can you do with a 6502?   :-)
> 
> Those old micros were not so bad. Years ago I wrote
> an assembler routine for MC6803 which calculated the square
> root from a 16 bit number. The whole routine took  n i n e
> processor instructions...

The 6502 was a nice MPU. While it lacked any 16-bit registers,
it had some really power addressing modes. I used 6502's in
lots of industrial control systems in the late 1970's before
moving on to the 6809 and 68000.