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Re: Difference between 6502 & 65C02



In article <4ivuv4$rlc@crl11.crl.com>, Chet Gerhardt <aplworks@crl.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, How about a 6503 (I got one in a Platinum IIe a while back)?  A 
> Friend and I were chatting about this, what is the difference between a 
> 6503, a 65c02 and a 6502? :)

A "6503" _is_ a 65C02.  It is just Apple's part number (they were not
able to put a letter in the middle of the number, so they called it a
6503, implying it is one better than a 6502).  It is probably an NCR
or GTE-sourced 65C02.  It definitely won't be a Rockwell R65C02, which
has several extra bit-manipulation instructions.
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David Empson
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