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10. A wkipedia article on the 6502
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 10:28 PM
Aug 2018
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502

"The MOS Technology 6502 (typically "sixty-five-oh-two" or "six-five-oh-two&quot [3] is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by a small team led by Chuck Peddle for MOS Technology. When it was introduced in 1975, the 6502 was, by a considerable margin, the least expensive microprocessor on the market. It initially sold for less than one-sixth the cost of competing designs from larger companies, such as Motorola and Intel, and caused rapid decreases in pricing across the entire processor market. Along with the Zilog Z80, it sparked a series of projects that resulted in the home computer revolution of the early 1980s."

Produced
1975; 43 years ago
Common manufacturer(s)
MOS Technology, Rockwell, Synertek
Max. CPU clock rate
1 MHz to 3 MHz
Instruction set
MOS 6502
Transistors
3,510,[1] 4,237[2]
Instructions
56
Data width
8
Address width
16
Package(s)
40-pin DIP

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