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    The VIC-II (Video Interface Chip II), specifically known as the MOS Technology 6567/6566/8562/8564 (NTSC versions), 6569/8565/8566 (PAL), is the microchip...
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    The VIC (Video Interface Chip), specifically known as the MOS Technology 6560 (NTSC version) / 6561 (PAL version), is the integrated circuit chip responsible...
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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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    The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) is the built-in programmable sound generator chip of the Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore...
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  • to reposition the hardware sprites on the screen. The C64's and C128's VIC-II has a flexible raster interrupt system. Raster interrupts and CPU intervention...
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    most of them due to undocumented side-effects pertaining to the MOS Technology VIC-II chip. Some examples are: Sprite scrollers were placed in the border...
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    the Commodore 128 ever saw production. Unlike earlier MOS video chips such as the popular VIC-II, the VDC had dedicated video memory, 16 kilobytes (16...
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    color internally based on YPBPR: CTIA and GTIA MOS Technology VIC MOS Technology VIC-II MOS Technology TED TMS9918 Motorola 6847 "YUV, YCbCr, YPbPr colour...
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    The MOS Technology 8568 Video Display Controller (VDC) was the graphics processor responsible for the 80-column[1] or RGBI display on the Commodore 128DCR...
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    static RAM and used the same MOS 6502 CPU as the PET. The VIC-20's video chip, the MOS Technology VIC, was a general-purpose color video chip designed by Al...
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    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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    Commodore 64 (redirect from C64-II)
    Design work for the chips, named MOS Technology VIC-II (Video Integrated Circuit for graphics) and MOS Technology SID (Sound Interface Device for audio)...
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    The 7360/8360 TExt Display (TED) was an integrated circuit made by MOS Technology, Inc. It was a video chip that also contained sound generation hardware...
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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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    usage in teletext decoders. Thomson EF9345 Motorola 6845 TMS9918 MOS Technology VIC-II List of home computers by video hardware TEA1002 PAL Colour Encoder...
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    (successor of this video processor) Motorola 6847 Motorola 6845 TMS9918 MOS Technology VIC-II List of home computers by video hardware Graphic Processors Databook...
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    daughterboard Motorola 6845, video address generator Thomson EF9345 TMS9918 MOS Technology VIC-II List of home computers by video hardware "MC6847/MC6847Y Video Display...
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    But on other models, there are only five levels of luminance: The MOS Technology VIC-II is used in the Commodore 64 (and Commodore 128 in 40-column mode)...
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    use than the VIC-II's 40-column display. Most models have the Motorola 68B45 installed which is a pin-compatible variant rather than the MOS 6545A1 2 MHz...
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    American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor...
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  • List of semiconductor scale examples (category International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors lithography nodes)
    Atari 2600 in 1977. MOS Technology SID, a programmable sound generator developed for the Commodore 64 in 1982. MOS Technology VIC-II, a video display controller...
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  • quality of the CRT display. Thomson EF9345 Motorola 6845 TMS9918 MOS Technology VIC-II AY-3-8900 Standard Television Interface Chip Datasheet (PDF). General...
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  • NMOS logic (redirect from N-MOS)
    NMOS or nMOS logic (from N-type metal–oxide–semiconductor) uses n-type (-) MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors) to implement logic...
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    Commodore 64, the same SID sound chip, and a MOS Technology 6566 graphics chip, a version of the VIC-II that powers the C-64 graphics for the MAX' static...
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  • Index of electronics articles (category Technology-related lists)
    Monostable – Moore's law – Morse code – MOS Technology 6501 – MOS Technology 6502 – MOS Technology SID – MOS Technology VIC-II – Mu-law algorithm – Multicoupler...
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    Commodore 1541 (redirect from VIC-1541)
    the Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20). The disk drive uses group coded recording (GCR) and contains a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, doubling as...
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    Video display controller (category Television technology)
    versions) and 6569/8565/8566 (PAL) were known as the VIC-II and were used in the Commodore 64. The MOS Technology 8563/8568 was used in the Commodore 128 (8563)...
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  • MOS Technology 6502, and variants of it, were used in personal computers, such as the Apple I, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, BBC Micro, PET, VIC-20...
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    The drive uses the MOS 6502 CPU, WD1770 or WD1772 floppy controller, 2x MOS Technology 6522 I/O controllers and 1x MOS Technology 6526. Unlike the 1541...
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    6502 compatible MOS 7501 or 8501 that was clocked approximately 75% faster than the CPUs used in the VIC-20 and C64, and a MOS Technology TED all-in-one...
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