5 Jan
2006
5 Jan
'06
2:53 p.m.
On 1/3/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Yet, the reverse has turned out to be true--the
68HC11
seems to be everywhere--and the 6502 has been pretty much relegated to
obscurity after some popularity in the first generation of personal
computers.
Which leads me, in a way, to the conclusion that maybe
instruction sets
don't matter all that much in the real world.
I've been wondering about this as well. I would have assumed that for
microcontrollers that cost would be supreme. Did the 6800 family get
cheaper than the 6502 at some point? After all saving a dollar a unit
on 100K units pays for a programmer.