General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

On 1/26/10, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote: I remember 6502 vs Z80 back in the day, and in the S-100 world, there was plenty of 8080 vs Z80, but IIRC, there wasn't a lot of user overlap between those that might run an 8080 vs the 6502. I was a bit young for the S-100 era - I used an occasional machine when visiting family friends, but was myself solidly in the 6502 camp as far back as 1977 with the PET - it was what we could afford, so that's the way it went at my family's house. Perhaps it was different for the guys who had an 8080 machine and watched the 6502 gobble up the low-end market. I myself never heard anyone espousing the "obvious merits" of the 8080 in the late 1970s, but I can concede that I might not have hung around that crowd. -ethan