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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by bbcbasic on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:23PM (#13128393)
But if you have a box of 10k 6502's you can use the same 12 pages of docs and get 2920000 transistors per page.
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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by qb45 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:20AM (#13129097)
But it's only fair to compare Skylake with at most a dozen or two of 6502s because that's how many cores are included in the Intel chip.
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