On 31 May 2010 at 8:47, Ben wrote:
I get about 40K transistors as ball park figure.
In fact, the 6809 has only about 5% more transistors than the Z80
according to data from Microprocessor Report. The 8086 has fewer
than 30K. Of course, a lot of the distinction depends on what's
being called a "transistor".
--Chuck