Which CPUs do you love or hate

[motrucker]

LOVE/Hate = TI TMS9900     Gads, no one else here used these things?
Love 68030 & 68060  - used to heat my room with an '040

non-committal to most other CPUs.....

[guest7146]

6502

I first learned to program on the 6502, and it was the CPU by which all others would be judged - I thought it was fantastic.  Some of the euphoria attributed to the 6502 is probably due to the incredible feeling of getting my first programs to work though.

Z80

I then moved on to the Z80.  Again, fantastic CPU and actually easier to work with than the 6502 I thought.  In fact, it was so easy to code with this CPU that if you weren't careful it could give you some bad programming habits! The sheer number of registers you could work with was the main reason I found this an easy CPU to work with.

Some brief CPU nasties

I then briefly moved on to x86, but absolutely loathed it.  Coding for intel's processors in assembly is akin to stabbing one's eye with a sword.  It was horrible.  I took an instant dislike, and moved away.

....to the 68K? Actually, no.  I never coded for the 68K.  I moved on to Microcontrollers with the Microchip PIC.  I coded in Assembly for a while, but to be honest this processor is a bit of a nasty little thing to code on in Assembly as well.  The bank switching is the main thing I dislike about it.

Microchip PIC

These days I still use the PIC as my main processor of choice, but I tend to write most of my stuff in C unless there is a specific requirement for Assembly (which, to be honest, is rare).

But I guess my favourite CPU from a users point of view would be the 68K since with it, through the Amiga, I have enjoyed many many years of good fun.  I actually bought quite a nice 68K Assembly language book but never really indulged it.

Applehammer.

[guest7146]

I should add that although I despise the x86 processors (in terms of writing assembly for them), Robert Noyce is my one true childhood (and adult) hero.

AppleHammer

[Fester]

Although not a cpu, I love the 555 timer. She gives me a buzz. :-)

[dreamcast270mhz]

Love:
M6800
All 68k
AMD K6 family
PPC g4 and g5
Intel P4 HT (plenty of power for today)
Hitatchi Sh2/SH4
Hate:
MOS 6502 (stupid lawsuits)
Emotion Engine
Intel Core Duo and higher
Pentium 2
Intel 8008
Intel 80088 ( 16-bit bus)
Intel '186 ( no performance increase)
Intel 386SX
Intel 486SX
Intel Overdrive
PPC 601
Whatever chip in Efikas
Motorola Dragonball
MiPS (PS1 CPU)

[persia]

Xeon “Nehalem”
Phenom X4

Basically any processor with 4 or more cores....

[DamageX]

I don't like the Pentium 4. And after trying to reverse engineer some code for the CDP 1802 I'm not too sure about that one. But what I HATE is crippled CPUs. For instance, the Celeron 766, perfectly fine CPU cursed with a ridiculous locked multiplier for 66MHz FSB long past the time when 133MHz-capable boards and memory were available. Intentionally making things slow is not cool. (Video cards with decent name brand GPUs and horrendously slow RAM also annoy me)

[Jiffy]

I do like the 6502/6510, the 68000, the Pentium Pro, the K6-III+, the ARM3 and the G3.

I more or less dislike the Pentium 4, the Celerons derived from the P4 and the slot A Athlon.

[Vulture]

Love:
Z80
68020
68030
68060
PPC 603/604
G4
Socket A Athlon
Core 2 Duo and derrivatives

Hate:
Pentium family from original up to 4 - what a load of crap!
68040 - so hot and incompatible at times
G3 - underpowered for what it was advertised
G5 - inferior to G4 (higher clocks though)

[jj]

No votes for the 6502 or Z80?
 
You guys suck.
 
 
Seriously though, if you profess to love or hate a CPU you are either slightly weird or you are a coder. Assuming you are the latter and of the age range of original Amiga users, you probably cut your teeth on a 6502 or Z80 and moved up to the 68000 with the Amiga.

Only just started reading the thread.  I would have said Z80 as that is what I cut my teeth on in an Amstrad CPC 464 then 6128

[takemehomegrandma]

Love: 7447/7448
Badass performance. The fastest Altivec unit per clock.

You have any experience of the 8610?

[aggro_mix]

Love:
Z80
68020
68030
68060
PPC 603/604
G4
Socket A Athlon
Core 2 Duo and derrivatives

Hate:
Pentium family from original up to 4 - what a load of crap!
68040 - so hot and incompatible at times
G3 - underpowered for what it was advertised
G5 - inferior to G4 (higher clocks though)

I think I've read somewhere that 68060 and the original Pentium are quite similar in design? Or something like that...

[Karlos]

I can't believe people are complaining about multicore CPU's. I find my quad core indispensible, especially when transcoding my media collection. Really, why convert one stream at a time, when you can do three concurrently and still have ample horsepower left to do all your normal stuff?

[klx300r]

my all time sweetheart...030@50 :-)

[koshman]

@ Karlos: you won't find much logic when Amigans start bashing "competing" platforms

[Karlos]

@ Karlos: you won't find much logic when Amigans start bashing "competing" platforms

I'll let top answer that:

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Tasks: 155 total,   4 running, 151 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 72.2%us,  0.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 16.9%id, 10.3%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4053804k total,  4026464k used,    27340k free,     8892k buffers
Swap: 20000884k total,    18008k used, 19982876k free,  3396568k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                                                                                        
 8631 karlos    20   0  175m  32m 5096 R  100  0.8  13:58.72 mencoder                                                                                                                                                                      
 8652 karlos    20   0  170m  27m 4652 R   97  0.7   6:05.80 mencoder                                                                                                                                                                      
 8642 karlos    20   0  170m  27m 4652 R   96  0.7   7:52.02 mencoder

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