<MrMobius>
TangentDelta, do you mean the 6809? the 6502 was an improvement in the 6800. there are some pointer things you cant do with it without self modifuing code for example
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<siraben>
I'd be interested to see the solution that uses the Chinese Remainder Theorem for day 13 part 2 in Forth
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<veltas>
I might do that when I get to it
<veltas>
Cut my teeth on Project Euler :P
<siraben>
Project Euler is great
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<TangentDelta>
MrMobius: Doing some assembly programming on both, I think that the 6800 (not the 6809, which has significant improvements over both of them) is a better processor than the 6502.
<TangentDelta>
It doesn't have as many addressing modes, which can be somewhat limiting, but being able to have a stack anywhere in memory is an extremely useful thing.
<the_cuckoo>
the 6502 was a major pain in the butt - my favourites as a kid were the z80 and later the 68000 - motorola risc were also great
<MrMobius>
TangentDelta, interesting. there's a thread on the 6502 forum comparing the two showing you generally get smaller faster code on the 6502 not counting the much higher clock rate
<TangentDelta>
I have a VME chassis with a Motorola 88K CPU board in it.
<TangentDelta>
Kind of a fun RISC architecture
<MrMobius>
i could see it being more fun to program than the 6502 tjough
<TangentDelta>
Yeah. The 6502 is significantly faster than the 6800 for a bunch of tasks.
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<TangentDelta>
Interrupt handling on the 6502 is unbeatable. I'm not sure how the 6800 handles interrupts.
<TangentDelta>
I have some Transputer modules that I want to do something with at some point.
<TangentDelta>
They're on a VME board, but I know nothing about it (other than that it is out of a piece of lab equipment)
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<Zarutian_HTC>
TangentDelta: what about RTX2010 vectored interrupts?
<TangentDelta>
Huh, I didn't know about the RTX2010
<TangentDelta>
That's a much newer microprocessor than the 6502 :P
<TangentDelta>
A lot of htings came after the 6502 with significantly faster interrupts. But at the time, I don't think there were any 8-bit microprocessors with the same interrupt handling speed.
<TangentDelta>
I shouldn't have worded it like that.
<Zarutian_HTC>
well the HP nano processor that was way befor 6502 iirc comes to mind
<Zarutian_HTC>
that had quite fast interrupt handling
<Zarutian_HTC>
but it was meant for fast instrument and industrial control applications
<TangentDelta>
It sounds like a fun processor to hack on
<TangentDelta>
My friend has a multimeter with 2 of them in it.
<TangentDelta>
Since it doesn't have an ALU on board, the meter has a discrete ALU that the Nano Processor routes data through
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