From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihnss!knudsen Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Sterile 6502, or Where is the 65000? Article-I.D.: ihnss.1451 Posted: Wed Feb 16 21:29:12 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 19:25:09 1983 Reply-To: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (Mike J Knudsen, ihnss!knudsen) Would anyone care to speculate why the 6502 never gave birth to a 16 or 32-bit offspring with lotsa registers, etc? Consider: 8080-->Z80, 8086 Z80-->Z8000 6800-->6809 (last & best of 8-bitters), 68000 6502-->zip!!!! (the 6510 in the C64 is as an 8085 to an 8080, no real gain). Was the 6502 so successful it achieved immortality and didn't need to evolve & reproduce to survive? If I can't have a 65000, how about at least a 6509 (that's a 6809 with non-ethic-joke instruction cycle times). mike k