Re: WDC and the 65C design continues to dominate!

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5mnhf9$2a1i@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>Press Release-March 1996

   Any reason why you're posting stuff that's well over a year old,
and trying to pass a press release off as totally truthful news? Such
things invariably put the most positive spin on things, even when that
stretches the truth. And we've had the "6502 is/isn't RISC" discussion
while you've been reading this channel; go to http://www.dejanews.com
to read the discussion if you can't remember or want to rehash it.

   To summarize my earlier opinions: the 6502 was designed before RISC
was really invented, lacks lots of orthagonal registers, variable
cycle counts for opcodes, and is not happy with large memory copies,
function call stacks, or the like. It's nice and simple, but that
barely counts to be a "RISC"-- it's not just the simplicity that
counts but also the functionality.

Nathan Mates

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