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Re:Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018) by tonyedgecombe on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:17AM (#18901499)
That's a little unfair, the BBC Micro ran at 2 MHz and was released before the Spectrum.
Re:Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018) by masklinn on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:01AM (#18901677)
It's not wrong though, the 6502 was much slower clocked that equivalent contemporaries.

However IIRC most contemporary architectures were closer to the Z80, so the 6502 was considered impressive because it was competitive despite a much lower clock rate.

Re:Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018) by jonsen on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:29AM (#18901805)
1 MHz clock on the 6800 family of processors, including the 6502, is equivalent to 2 MHz clock on the Z80. The 6800 architecture used a so called two-phase clock. Each phase, positive and negative, of the clock cycle was used to do work.
Re:Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018) by timbit42 on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:49AM (#18903848)
I would suggest it is between 2 and 3 times, but it depends on what kind of code you are running.
Re:Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018) by timbit42 on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:26AM (#18903634)
A 2 MHz 6502 is approximately equivalent to a 6 MHz Z80, give or take 1 MHz depending on what you're doing.