3 Jan
2006
3 Jan
'06
12:58 p.m.
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:53 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>I just haven't gotten around to them yet. But
ever scrapped
>keyboard has one of those in there. :-)
Should say "_every_ scrapped keyboard...
The strange thing about history is that it's
unpredictable.
I'dve expected to see the 6502 architecture (with its 8 bit limitations)
find its way into embedded microcontrollers and the 6800 (which feels a bit
more friendly to z80 residents with its 16-bit index register and stack) to
be at home in PCs. 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. One wonders what the Apple ][ would have become had the 6800
been the processor of choice (IIRC, the Apple I had jumpers to allow either
the 6502 or 6800 to be used).
Oh really? Now _that's_ an interesting tidbit, I had no idea those chips
were that close, though I do see a lot of similarities between them.
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