>> Bring back the 6809 !!!!
>> 'Nicest' processor ever built :-)

>> And, as a bonus, no programming issues whatsoever.

> to which, offlist, Ken Mardle said:

I bought the 1st MC6809 ever sold in NZ and probably one of the 1st 
sold
anywhere for use in my Master's Thesis project.  It didn't arrive in 
time so
I ended up using an MC6801 (or was in an MC6808) and the MC6809 went 
unused.

Regrettably I seem to have lost it (that's not the same thing as 
saying I no
longer have it :-).

I have a copy of the data sheet that came with it  - it is such an 
early
revision that about half of the text is written on a typewriter with
hand-annotated corrections and hand-drawn diagrams.  The instruction 
set
table is entirely hand-written.  The chip itself was as I recall also
hand-labelled.

I agree with your sentiments re the instruction set  - certainly one 
of the
nicest and easiest to program in assembler and should have been very
efficient for compiled high-level languages.

Regards,

Ken Mardle

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