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No. The 8088/86 was similar in speed to the 6502, around 1.4x faster. The clock speed was higher (4.77 vs 1MHz) but it was generally less efficient. However,
by RachelF 4y ago
No. The 8088/86 was similar in speed to the 6502, around 1.4x faster.
The clock speed was higher (4.77 vs 1MHz) but it was generally less efficient.
However, it was an easier machine to use. The Apple 2 was full of Woz shortcuts as the article mentioned. Made it cheap, but hard to program. Not just the floppy and the speaker, the high res graphics mode (HGR) had memory addresses that were not aligned to actual screen rows. The first row of pixels started at $8000. The next row in memory was 1/3 of the way down the screen, probably due to refresh timing.
Amazing what was achieved on such hardware, in days when documentation was good, but very hard to find.