The MOS Technology 6502 (typically pronounced "sixty-five-oh-two" or "six-five-oh-two") is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by a small team led...
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The MOS Technology 6510 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology. It is a modified form of the very successful 6502. The 6510 is widely used...
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WDC 65C02 (redirect from MOS Technology 65C02)
enhanced CMOS version of the popular nMOS-based 8-bit MOS Technology 6502. It uses less power than the original 6502, fixes several problems, and adds new...
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MOS Technology, Inc. ("MOS" being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor), later known as CSG (Commodore Semiconductor Group) and GMT Microelectronics, was...
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Bill Mensch (section MOS 6502)
team led by Chuck Peddle that created the MOS Technology 6502. He also designed the 16-bit successor to the 6502, the 65816. Mensch is the founder, chairman...
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the MOS Technology 6502 patent, Bill Mensch. Prior to leaving MOS Technology in 1977 Bill was the microprocessor design manager at MOS Technology. Beyond...
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MOS Technology 8502 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology and used in the Commodore 128 (C128). It is an improved version of the MOS 6510...
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WDC 65C02 8-bit MPU, itself a CMOS enhancement of the venerable MOS Technology 6502 NMOS MPU. The 65C816 is the CPU for the Apple IIGS and, in modified...
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Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers. The Z80 and the MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPUs were widely used in home computers and second- and third-generation...
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Atari 2600 (section MOS Technology 6502/6507)
Motorola's new 6800 in future systems. In September 1975, MOS Technology debuted the 6502 microprocessor for $25 at the Wescon trade show in San Francisco...
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MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502....
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Motorola 6809 (section 6800 and 6502)
significant improvements over it and 8-bit contemporaries like the MOS Technology 6502, including a hardware multiplication instruction, 16-bit arithmetic...
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and Z8000 families; the National Semiconductor NS320xx family; the MOS Technology 6502 family; and others. Some designs have been regarded as borderline...
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derivative of the MOS Technology 6502 core, modified to disable the 6502's binary-coded decimal mode (possibly to avoid a MOS Technology patent). It also...
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computer is a development computer introduced in 1978 based on the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor. The AIM-65 is essentially an expanded KIM-1 computer...
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CSG 65CE02 (redirect from MOS Technology 4510)
by Commodore Semiconductor Group in 1988. It is a member of the MOS Technology 6502 family, developed from the CMOS WDC 65C02 released by the Western...
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Apple I (category 6502-based home computers)
$25 MOS Technology 6502 was released in late 1975, Wozniak wrote a version of BASIC for it, then began to design a computer for it to run on. The 6502 was...
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(TIA) is the custom computer chip which, along with a variant of the MOS Technology 6502, constitutes the heart of the 1977 Atari Video Computer System game...
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dependent on machine architecture. For example, the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 processor families treat the first 256 bytes of memory specially...
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"six-five-oh-seven") is an 8-bit microprocessor from MOS Technology, Inc. It is a version of their 40-pin 6502 packaged in a 28-pin DIP, making it cheaper to...
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setting starts used for the platform. Also in 1981, a variant for the MOS Technology 6502 processor, INTER-LISP/65, was released by Datasoft for the Atari...
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Visual 1050 (category Visual Technology, Inc.)
MOS Technology 6502 used as a graphics coprocessor. The Visual 1050 featured a dual-processor architecture; Z80A processor as the main CPU and a 6502...
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Motorola 6800 (section MOS ICs)
magazine's microprocessor editor, interviewed Chuck Peddle about MOS Technology's new 6502 microprocessor. Cushman then asked "Tom Bennett, master architect...
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Commodore PET (category 6502-based home computers)
by Commodore International. A single all-in-one case combines a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, Commodore BASIC in read-only memory, keyboard, monochrome...
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by 6502 Workshop, a retrocomputing group headed by programmer Maegan Lemmert. Programming was done in the assembly language of MOS Technology 6502, the...
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of the MOS Technology 6502, an 8-bit microprocessor prevalent in contemporary home computers and consoles; Nintendo ostensibly disabled the 6502's binary-coded...
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Atari 8-bit computers (category 6502-based home computers)
400 and Atari 800. The architecture is designed around the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 CPU and three custom coprocessors which provide support for sprites...
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up as the customer required during chip manufacture. This short-lived technology of the day was cheaper and quicker than the design of a customised logic...
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Apple II (original) (category 6502-based home computers)
primarily by Steve Wozniak. The system is based around the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor. Jerry Manock designed the foam-molded plastic case...
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8-bit computers. The language, similar to ALGOL, maps cleanly to the MOS Technology 6502 of the Atari computer without complex compiler optimizations. Fast...
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