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Re: WDC and the 65C design continues to dominate!
- Subject: Re: WDC and the 65C design continues to dominate!
- From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
- Date: 1997/06/03
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Southwestern Bell Internet Services
- References: <5mnhf9$2a1i@uni.library.ucla.edu> <33912E90.39C0@swbell.net> <5muuh2$2sho@uni.library.ucla.edu>
Scott writes ...
>
> ....
> What about the contention that the 65C02 is the first 8-bit RISC
> chip? That's what the article claimed.
>
> Before SOMEONE jumps on me and says "don't believe everything you
> read you tone-deaf idiot," let me just say that I don't necessarily
> believe it. I'm just wondering why some people consider it so.
>
Maybe it's because the 6502 executes instructions without a lot of
intermediate translation. The instructions are pretty close to being raw
machine code. I do not know why the article would single out the 65_C_02.
Rubywand