From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.appl,net.micro.atar
Title: Re: "new" CPU with 128 stacks, 16-bit registers
Article-I.D.: watarts.1703
Posted: Tue Feb 22 10:26:42 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 23:50:27 1983
Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl)
References: sytek.284

People who like the 6502 keep pointing out that you can pretend its page
zero locations are registers, and do things that way.  If it were really
that simple, then why don't we see any sophisticated software for that
processor?  Why hasn't anyone brought up C on it, and implemented Un*x
lookalikes?  (Note that there are some surprisingly good Un*x imitations
going on Z80 and 6809 based systems).  There also aren't any good database
systems that run on 6502-based machines, nor for that matter any particularly
good or widely-supported operating systems.  If the 6502 were half as
powerful as its advocates claim, there would be more and better software
available for it; the absence of such software suggests that maybe the chip
isn't as capable as some of the other 8-bit processors.