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Re: www.6502.org

Subject: Re: www.6502.org
From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
Date: 1999/11/23
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.arch.embedded
Organization: Oregon VOS
References: <943140026.900207@iris.nyx.net> <383A9E19.359FB7CD@mail.uni-mainz.de> <IMA_3.40831$YI2.2011197@typ11.nn.bcandid.com> <cygrkiuj-1Dk17#0558@batcher.bog>

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Zefram Cochrane wrote:

| Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
| 
| : The original 6502 came from MOS Technology. The 65C02 and later chips came
| : from William Mensch and Western Design Center. Rockwell was merely another
| : source, as was GTE and CMD. Rockwell did add some instructions to their
| : 65C02s, which were incompatible with all other 65C02s as well as all sub-
| : sequent 6500 series chips.
| 
| Where does Chuck Peddle come into this ? Didn't he invent the 6502, and
| was that processor specifically designed for the Commodore Pet ?

Um, along a different line, just how pin compatible are the '6502' chips
from Rockwell and Hitachi?  I mean, if we had to replace the 6502 chips in
our  1541 disk drives?

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