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Subject: Re: Re: uP architecture - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 05:38:24 EDT
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inmet!ramsey    Jul 11 18:26:00 1983

Quite a few of you seem to dislike the 1802.  Apparently none of you have
realized that the 1802 was not intended to be programmed in its assembly
language.  This fact was made quite clear in the first article I saw about
the 1802 (in IEEE Computer, many moons ago).  In fact, it was intended to
support inner interpreters for such things as FORTH and P-code.  Having
written parts of a FORTH interpreter for the thing, I can attest to the
success of their efforts.  For a general mix of FORTH code, an 1802A was
quite capable of outrunning both Z80s (2 mhz) and 8080As.  Then again,
I don't know too many Z80 based systems that could run for weeks off a
pair of transistor radio batteries.  As far as I'm concerned, the 1802
was ahead of its time.