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On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 05:13:06 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> 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 ?

How many Apples had Z80 envy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard

A friend had an Apple II and when he outgrew BASIC was a little upset to 
find the Apple wasn't a great platform for learning C.