28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
3:13 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Make a list A: 6809 B: 8086
See Answer:
That is not quite fair for Intel since the 6809 came out after
the 8086. The problem is you have a 16 bit design crippled
so you can be 8080A software comptable.
My personal bias is the pre-fetch buffer, you never know just
what speed your cpu is running at. I find both the Z80 and
8086 not clean as they tweek the 8080A instruction set to something
that is almost usefull.
Can we just
shoot the designers of the 8086 and just leave it that. !?
But seriously -- why? I didn't find it all that horrible -- in fact, I
missed the string handling (REP MOVSW/STOSW/SCASW/etc.) on all the other
platforms I mentioned. If they truly deserve to be shot, I want to know
why :-)