Oh yes, I agree with no hesitation. I cut my assembly teeth on this
little beauty. IMHO, THE BEST 8-bit micro ever developed. Pity Motorola
fumbled and dropped the ball.

Grant Beattie wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>>I had Color Computer models when I started computing... "CoCo" was a
>>wonderful machine... 6809E was a good micro to learn assembly on!
>> (GRIN)  And Microware's OS/9 was (and still is) and excellent true
>>preemptive-multitasking operating system.  Far ahead of its time.
>
>
> The 6809 was a BRILLIANT micro.   It is was as clean as the 68k but
> in an 8-bit form.  Motorola lost the plot completely when they revealed that
> the CPU core for the HC11 was NOT based on the 6809.  Even today,
> the newer HC12 and HC08's are including operations that were standard
> in the 6809 of 20 years ago (eek!).  It had great indexed and indirect
> addressing, very orthogonal instruction set, and pre/post increment/
> decrement in 1 or 2 steps.  Weep...
>
> GB

Nino.
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