trying to design my first micro- looking for "prior art" (6100 and6809)

[woodelf]

Allison wrote:

>There are other CPUs like 8085, Z80 and relatives with sims around for them.
>Never minding 6800 and 6502s.  So its a matter of taste.
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The 6100 makes a nice basic PDP-8 but remember the 8 requires paper tape 
for the basic system.

>In all cases having a sim for the target machine will make design work and 
>software more real and less dreaming.
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I find it the other way around, sims seem less real than hardware 
sitting on board even the design
is never finished.  A magnetic tape drive and old I/O does seem to feel 
like a massive computer
even if todays equivelant fits on a stick of chewing gum.

>Allison
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