On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:21:14 -0800, Roger Johnstone wrote
(in article <20061224202109905+1300@News.Individual.NET>):
My high school's library had a collection of Byte magazines going back
to the late '70s. The older issues were full of interesting articles,
including some cool hardware and software hacks for the Apple II and
other 8-bit computers. This lasted until the early 1980s, but by about
1985 Byte had become a boring PC-business-clone monoculture.
I auctioned off Byte 1 vol 1 a couple years ago and sold the rest. I recall
the rare Apple related article, but I looked through them before I sold and
most of the stuff was S100, Klugeharp, 8008, 8080, 6800 (Mitts, the first MS
BASIC interpreter). All the early heavy lifting was by Carl Helmers and he
just wasn't a single address guy (people call it load/store these days for
some reason). The two address folks could not seem to grasp the simplicity of
the single address architectures. They needed a MOV instruction or they were
stuck. They also seemed a bit perplexed by memory mapped I/O and felt better
with separate I/O instructions.
They were very excited by the truly goofy Z80 when it came out.
6502 programmers migrated to RISC much easier than Intel users.