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6502 or Z80 Which Is Better?

I have seen lots of discussions on the 6502 and the Z80 microprocessors so I thought I would start this poll.

And be sure to comment on why you voted for the ------ processor!

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  • Better is a dodgy word in this context.

     

    My favorite processor of that era was the Motorola 6809  - in many ways way ahead of it's time.

     

    The 6502 was nice and in many ways much easier to code effectively than the Z80. The Z80 had all sorts of extra goodies which made it effective in a low cost systems kind of way in things like the Sinclair computer. An awful lot of Z80s never did any more than pretend to be Intel 8080s so the good bits were largely unused.

     

    I did commercial designs based on 6502, 6802, 6805, 6809 and then 68HC11  - I always preferred the 6800 based architectures (of which the 6502 was a relation although made by different people).

     

    MK

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  • Better is a dodgy word in this context.

     

    My favorite processor of that era was the Motorola 6809  - in many ways way ahead of it's time.

     

    The 6502 was nice and in many ways much easier to code effectively than the Z80. The Z80 had all sorts of extra goodies which made it effective in a low cost systems kind of way in things like the Sinclair computer. An awful lot of Z80s never did any more than pretend to be Intel 8080s so the good bits were largely unused.

     

    I did commercial designs based on 6502, 6802, 6805, 6809 and then 68HC11  - I always preferred the 6800 based architectures (of which the 6502 was a relation although made by different people).

     

    MK

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