POLL: Pick your favorite 8-bit Microprocessor!

[Analog]

Remember the 8 bit days?

 

[Colt45]

what did nintendo use?

 

[FoBoT]

it was a toss up between the 680x - Motorola 8-bit µP and the Z80, but since i never actually owned a Z80 , i had to go with the motorola

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

z80 biatch

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
z80 biatch

heh, the Z80 was designed by an INTeL refugee.

 

[IGBT]

Wasen't the intel8080 a popular 8 bit cpu?

 

[OS]

Hmm, I built a 4 bit processor for a lab, I could probably double up all the verilog modules and extend it to be an 8 bit cpu. Then that would be my favorite one.

 

[XZeroII]

Don't make me choose...

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: IGBT
Wasen't the intel8080 a popular 8 bit cpu?

yes, its covered under the 8080A

 

[SWirth86]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
Remember the 8 bit days?

No

 

[DaveSimmons]

6502 was a clean instruction set, and paired up nicely with both the Atari and C64 graphics chips.

This brings back memories of patching assembly code in the debugger on my C=64 because it was so much faster than rebuilding a game in the assembler

That, and timing out loops to see if they'd complete in few enough cycles to fit in 4 vertical-blank intervals.

80x86 coders had it way too easy

 

[ViRGE]

Ugg, it's a hard choice. The Moto 68K brought us the Mac, the TI-89/92, and later on the Palm Pilot, but the Z80 brought us TI-82/83 calculators, and the Game Boy. In the end, I had to go with the 68K.

 

[JC]

Z80.

JC

 

[N8Magic]

My vote also goes to the 6502, as it was the processor in my first computer. (Atari 600XL)

 

[illusion88]

8080 baby!

Its a close tie with the Z80.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Zilog Z80 BABY! Go TI-85!

ZV

 

[LeeTJ]

didn't intel have an 8086?

oh wait. sorry, was the 8086 a 16 bit chip?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
z80 biatch

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
didn't intel have an 8086?

oh wait. sorry, was the 8086 a 16 bit chip?

Yes, the 8086 was a 16-bit processor.

So was the 8088, but it had an 8-bit bus for compatibility with cheap chipsets.

 

[Electrode]

6502 owns you

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
didn't intel have an 8086?

oh wait. sorry, was the 8086 a 16 bit chip?

Yes, the 8086 was a 16-bit processor.

So was the 8088, but it had an 8-bit bus for compatibility with cheap chipsets.

ya, that was an interesting thing back then. i think the 8086 came first right?? but intel felt that no one would need a true 16 bit chip so they made the 8088. more or less a crippled 8086.

 

[chiwawa626]

Nerds

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
didn't intel have an 8086?

oh wait. sorry, was the 8086 a 16 bit chip?

Yes, the 8086 was a 16-bit processor.

So was the 8088, but it had an 8-bit bus for compatibility with cheap chipsets.

ya, that was an interesting thing back then. i think the 8086 came first right?? but intel felt that no one would need a true 16 bit chip so they made the 8088. more or less a crippled 8086.

You got it.

Consider it to be the Celeron of it's generation.

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Nerds

Children.

 

[brtspears2]

Z80 is hard to beat.