[Gllug] BBC and acorn bits

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On 16 Nov 2006, John Winters spake thusly:

> - Tethys wrote:
>> On 11/16/06, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
>>
>>> 6502 crap. Real game programers wrote in Z80 machine code
>> I'd have to disagree there. 6502/6510 is a beautiful chip to work with.
>
> <AOL> I cut my assembler teeth on the Z80 and couldn't believe how
> much nicer the 6502 was when I switched to that.  The Z80 looks
> attractive initially because of the number of registers, the number of
> instructions and the clock speed, but when you actually try producing
> lean mean and clean code the 6502 beats it hands down.  It also
> produces significantly better performance from lower clock speeds.  A
> sort of proto-RISC chip.

The 6502 looks horrible until you realise that page 0 is a page of
registers in and of itself, and that as long as you ditch the heaps
of vile crap MS wasted page 0 on you can do all sorts of really nifty
things.

I've not seen any other machine with 128 2-byte registers before or
since :)

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 or BeOS... is that Emacs boots quicker.' --- PdS
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