Much less impressive perhaps is that my microprocessors class, in 2005,
still taught the 68HC11.
--
Martin K

Russell McMahon wrote:

>>>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
>
>  
>


-- 
Martin Klingensmith
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http://nnytech.net/

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