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Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 00:00:00 1984
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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While the 6809 is a superior chip to generate code for (by machine) it
can't even touch the 6502 in speed for hand-written assembler code.
Nor can the z-80 or any other 8 bit micro I've seen.

Commodore chooses the 6502 mainly because they designed it, or rather
Chuck Peddle, designer of the first PET, designed it.

But he did a good job if you remember he wanted a fast, optimized 8-bit
processor.  It's been proven time and time again that when coded properly,
z-80 programs that do the same thing are twice as big and several times
slower than 6502 programs.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473