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.