[Gllug] Re: Dual core AMDs

[Christian Smith]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dylan wrote:

>On Wednesday 13 Jul 2005 20:34, Ian Northeast wrote:
>>
>> And BTW I thought the Z80 was a much better chip than the 6502 and
>> never understood why Acorn/BBC didn't use it instead.
>
>Because Motorola were a partner in the BBC Micro project.


6502 was not a Motorola product. It was designed and built by MOS
technologies. In fact, the 6502 was simply a 6501 with the pins
re-arranged, after having been sued by Motorola as the 6501 was pin
compatible with 6800 (designed by the same team.)


>
>Dylan
>

Christian



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