Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?

[Simon Scott <simon@chrome64.org>]

Bill H wrote:

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> This message has been cross-posted to a number of revalent usenet
> groups, so please do not start a "My system is better than your system
> flame war".
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z80 machines have b/w displays because the z80 lacks the power to drive a
colour display. It just cant move enough colour bytes around. Every z80
instruction takes a few years to complete. The 6502 is a much better
processor, as evidenced by the superiority of all the 6502 based machines
over their crummy z80 counterparts. Besides, the number 6502 is larger than
the number 80, so it has to be better.

Compare a c64 to a spectrum, and youll see what I mean. See the nasty colour
clash on the spectrum? That's caused by the z80 being a lousy processor and
getting the colours wrong. They actually designed the z80 to run coffee
percolators, and then some crazy englishman thought it would be good inside
a computer. How wrong was he.

Perhaps you could turn a Spectrum into a coffee percolator.... I dunno.

ps. My c64 kills your spectrum. So there.