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Re:Motorola 6800 by cmrdporcupine on Saturday June 25, 2022 @04:49PM (#31878614)
I actually only recently learned that the 8008/8080 was in fact not based on the 4004/4040 instruction set. They used the same numbering system, but the ISA has little to nothing in common with it and in fact the 8008 project was in started before the 4004:

https://sites.google.com/site/microprocessorintel4004/8008-8...

Re:Motorola 6800 by FullyFunctional on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:25AM (#31881607)
Thanks I might misremember. Regradless, 8080 is still awful and they could have sone better with more foresight (which is easy to say so many decades later).