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On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> The Z80 was quite nice; I wrote heaps of programs for it, and I even found an 
> ANSI C Compiler for it (Hi-Tech as I recall; BDS-C was, well, you could 
> barely call it "C")[*].  I compiled a number of Unix programs...

Well, it *was* "Braindead Software" C.

<snip>

> The x86 architecture is utterly brain-dead; I mean, what's wrong with a
> linear address space?  I think it was JohnG who said "segment registers
> are for worms".

The 65816 doesn't have the screwed-up bitshifted segment stuff but it's 
also a segmented architecture and is also braindead.

And I'm a 65C02 fan.

-uso.