Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!newman From: newman@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Newman) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: uP architecture - (nf) Message-ID: <1659@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 15:12:26 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1659 Posted: Sat Jul 2 15:12:26 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 15:29:41 EDT References: <189@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 8 The 8080 was a successor to the even more wretched 8008, which was designed as a terminal controller, not a general purpose uP. The 1802 is indeed VERY slow, has abominable addressing modes, and as a result is very difficult to write any assembler code for. Its only nice feature is it comes in a CMOS version, but then so do the 6800 and 6502.