Re: What Is The Difference Between 68000 Chip And 80x86 Chip?

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Will Strutts wrote:

> "David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> > We were talking about the 6800.
> >
> > The 6809 is a different kettle of fish.  It is based on the 6800, but
> > has a much more flexible architecture and instruction set.  It retains
> > assembly language source compatibility (for the most part) but cannot
> > execute 6800 machine code directly due to different opcodes being used.
> >
> > If we want to get into talking about 6800 derivatives, I could bore
> > everyone silly with details about a few of them.
>
> I know  you were but I have never used a plain 6800 processor.
> Just the ole 6809 in my TRS-80 Color Computer.

Which CoCo?
6809 or
68B09E?

Roy

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