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   From: simon@chrome64.org   
      
   Bill H wrote:   
      
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   > This message has been cross-posted to a number of revalent usenet   
   > groups, so please do not start a "My system is better than your system   
   > flame war".   
   > ===========================================================   
      
   z80 machines have b/w displays because the z80 lacks the power to drive a   
   colour display. It just cant move enough colour bytes around. Every z80   
   instruction takes a few years to complete. The 6502 is a much better   
   processor, as evidenced by the superiority of all the 6502 based machines   
   over their crummy z80 counterparts. Besides, the number 6502 is larger than   
   the number 80, so it has to be better.   
      
   Compare a c64 to a spectrum, and youll see what I mean. See the nasty colour   
   clash on the spectrum? That's caused by the z80 being a lousy processor and   
   getting the colours wrong. They actually designed the z80 to run coffee   
   percolators, and then some crazy englishman thought it would be good inside   
   a computer. How wrong was he.   
      
   Perhaps you could turn a Spectrum into a coffee percolator.... I dunno.   
      
   ps. My c64 kills your spectrum. So there.   
      
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