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Re: Enhanced //e with a 6503??!

Subject: Re: Enhanced //e with a 6503??!
From: heuser.marcus@freenet.de
Date: 18 May 2006 09:59:25 -0700
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> My //e Platinum has a chip labeled as a 6503 too. Same chip.
> It's Mexican and has a logo I don't recognise. Sort of looks like an
> Atari logo inside an oval.

Its most certainly the Rockwell-logo.
Look here:
http://www.cpu-collection.de/index.php?tn=0&l0=co&l1=Rockwell


> The chip is definitely 40 pin too. I have no idea why it is labeled 6503.

In this thread there are already some speculations about that.
It was already established, however, that this is a 65C02-compatible
chip - and maybe Rockwell wanted to distinguish it clearly from its own
R65C02 (which has additional instructions).

bye
Marcus

References:
- Enhanced //e with a 6503??!
  - From: "BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
- Re: Enhanced //e with a 6503??!
  - From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
- Re: Enhanced //e with a 6503??!
  - From: "General_Failure" <tristan.mumford@gmail.com>

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