The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th

Re:The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th by jacquesm on Friday September 17, 2010 @05:33AM (#1700561)

6809 did 8x8 mul.

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Re:The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th by pietrofmaggi on Friday September 17, 2010 @05:43AM (#1700579)

6809 was one of the first to have a mul instruction, and was used in the initial development of the macintosh: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Good_Earth.txt

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Re:The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th by unwind on Friday September 17, 2010 @05:54AM (#1700594)

Awesome! In 11 clock cycle (not counting the set-up, i.e. loading the hardcoded source registers with the desired values).

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Re:The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th by mtkd on Friday September 17, 2010 @08:26AM (#1700864)

That's interesting, thanks, I remember writing my own on the Z80.

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