6502 versus Z80

Andy Armstrong andy at hexten.net
Tue Sep 19 10:31:13 BST 2006


On 19 Sep 2006, at 04:40, muppet wrote:
>> On 19 Sep 2006, at 00:44, muppet wrote:
>>> And, incidentally, i learned to program on a Tandy Color Computer  
>>> 2 with Microsoft Color BASIC.  Fortunately, puberty got in the  
>>> way of me holding interest in the Z80 machine language... that,  
>>> and lack of tools on the CoCo2 itself to write such programs.   
>>> (Peek and poke are a little too, um, raw for that purpose.)
>>
>> CoCo2 was 6809 no?
>
> You are quite correct, unless you also wrote http:// 
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

No - I was basing that on the fact that Dragon 32s where 6809 - and  
they were CoCo based :)

> Yaarr, i have been living a Z80 impostor lie.

Are you having an identity crisis now? :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net



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