HP 35S - long live the RPN!

[Les Bell]

(12-02-2014 07:36 AM)brouhaha Wrote:  The 35S has a much less efficient instruction set, actually. It uses a 6502-compatible core, which is atrocious for running C code.

P.J. Plauger, who (I believe) wrote the Whitesmiths C compiler, famously remarked that his company was unable to provide a compiler for the 6502 because it was "below C level".