Re: Amiga, Mac, Atari

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

In <608b6569.0209190652.52cca2b3@posting.google.com> Lewin A.R.W. 
Edwards wrote:
> steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote in message news:<9307085f.
> 0209181124.7ea20a06@posting.google.com>...
>
>> Atari's arcade version of Tetris also ran on a 6502.  The Super NES
>> console ran on a 65C816, which is a 65C02 derivative - other than the
>> Apple IIgs, the only system I know to use a C816.
> 
> The 65C816 core has found new life as the central core in a _HOST_ of
> very cheap ($1 and less) toy ICs. There are hundreds of thousands made
> every day. You might be surprised how many 6502 and 65C816 cores are
> in your kid's toybox...

I spotted this at the Western Design Center's web site some time ago. 
WDC are the creators of the 65C02 and the 65C816.

http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/

"It is estimated that there have been more than 2 billion 6502/65C02/
65C816 embedded processors in applications such as personal computers, 
video game systems, modems, floppy disk drives, set-top cable boxes, 
telephones, fax machines, pagers, digital television chip sets, 
automobile dashboard controllers, hand-held electronic publishing 
devices, PDA?s, toys, industrial controllers, embedded heart 
defibrillators and pacemakers, etc. It is also estimated that the 
installed base of 65C02 and 65C816 embedded processors is growing by 
more than 200 million units per year, provided by WDC?s sixty-plus 
licensees."

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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"So we went to Atari and said, 'We've got this amazing thing, even built
with some of your parts and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll
give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work
for you.' They said 'No'. Then we went to Hewlett-Packard; they said,
'We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet'."

      Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and
      H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer