Although there were definitely other CPUs in use in the 1980s, the vast majority of microcomputers people had at home or at the office used either a [[MOS 6502]] (or one of its variants), a Zilog [[Z80]], an early member of the [[Intel 8086]] family, or a [[Motorola 68000]].
Among those four CPUs, the 68000 is the easiest to program in assembly due to its clean, orthogonal 32-bit instruction set and linear memory model.
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