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Subject: Re: 6809 - a 8/16-bit hybrid with sex

Author: Carey

Date: 21:22:55 09/26/05

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On September 26, 2005 at 16:58:09, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On September 26, 2005 at 13:57:23, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>>
>>>The Matchbox CPU (zelfbouw 6809), a 16-bit one.

>Really a fascinating CPU, a 8/16 bit hybrid,
>with sex, Sign extend B into A.

Yup... The 6809 used to easly outperform 6502's running at twice the speed.

The SEX instruction was always amusing to tell about.... But it was,
unfortunately, a very boring instrunction.


>"Unfortunately neither Motorola nor Hitachi produce 6809 processors or

>May be Usurpator II runs on a fast PC with 6809 emulator!

You can still track down a few 6809 & 6309's without too much effort.  Don't
know how well you can overclock a 6309, but certainly more than the original
6809.

And there is at least one open source clone of the 6809.  OpenCores.org has one,
and I think one or two other versions exist, too.  Plus a few commercial ones.
They probably aren't pin compatable, but are at least instruction compatable.




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