Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: 451061%UOTTAWA.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Valentin Pepelea) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Benchmarks (was: Re: A2620) Message-ID: <17837@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 16 Jun 89 15:02:32 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 20 "Joseph P. Larson" writes in message <6607@dayton.UUCP> > Intel might make fast or reliable chips. But they weren't designed by > anyone with experience with real assembly languages. (Designers were probably > ex Z-80 or 6502 programmers.) Excuse me, but you don't know what you're talking about. The 6502 had the most beautiful architecture in its 8-bit era. The way it used its accumulator, indexed registers, and instruction execution was the summum of that bygone era. As you should know, the designers of the 6502 had left Motorola after losing a battle over the 6800's architecture. They used their knownledge to build that which today, only the 6811 may challenge. Valentin _________________________________________________________________________ "An operating system without Name: Valentin Pepelea virtual memory is an operating Phonet: (613) 231-7476 (New!) system without virtue." Bitnet: 451061@Uottawa.bitnet Usenet: Use cunyvm.cuny.edu gate - Ancient Inca Proverb Planet: 451061@acadvm1.UOttawa.CA