From: "Thomas A. Moulton" 
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Reply-To: "Thomas A. Moulton" 


> I think the Zilog Z80 derived microprocessors and the ones derived from
the
> Motorola 6800/6502 might be a bit more efficient with Forth than the 8080
> derivatives.  (I think the 8080 family adressing modes are lousy!)  Back
in the
> early days of microcomputers, the Z80's got a bad shake because they
mostly had
> to run code written for the 8080.  The Z80 has more powerful addressing
modes
> that would streamline a lot of code, but even back then, Intel was on top
of the
> compatibility heap.  The Motorola 68000 would be especially good, but that
may
> be more horsepower than you want for a drive controller.

The 6502 was Great for forth with the wild addressing modes.

Once snowed in in NJ I wrote a forth like program to download Atari 800
games from our email system in the 80's it was assembly and the forth words
were hand compiled... why download the games? my floppy drive failed...

ok, enough... back to ATM...

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