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Date: 6 Apr 2025 02:27:23 GMT
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On 6 Apr 2025 00:14:27 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:


> Around 1980 or so, I had a short assembly program for 6502.  It may have
> been a college assignment.  Just for fun, I rewrote it for 6800 and then
> for 6809.  Then, I counted the number of instructions in all three
> versions.  The 6800 version used 2/3 the number of instructions as the
> 6502 version.  The 6809 version used half of the instructions of the
> 6502 version.

An early RISC processor! We doan need all those steenking instructions!