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On 4/7/25 3:47 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On 6 Apr 2025 00:14:27 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:
> 
>> I don't have chapter and verse to quote, but back in the day I was told
>> that the original design of the 6502 _WAS_ superior to the 6809, but
>> Motorola sued on a basis of IP theft or similar, and the 6502 was dumbed
>> down by removing registers and/or crippling the indexing modes.
> 
> No, that would have been the Motorola 6800. The 6809 came somewhat later.
> 
> The main rivalry in the 8-bit world was between the 6502 and the Z80. 6502
> fans liked to tout the fact that their fave CPU had so many instructions
> that would execute in one clock cycle ... until you looked closer and
> discovered that it was restricting itself to 8-bit address arithmetic,
> where the Z80 was supporting full 16-bit addresses.
>

   Well ... it was what it was.

   And the 65xx clearly WAS very very popular.

   How many Apple's, CBMs, sold ?