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,[[ImageFile:MOS 6502AD 4585 top.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The 6502 CPU]]
'' 6502 info taken from Wikipedia.org''
The '''MOS Technology 6502 ''' is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Chuck Peddle for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced it was the least expensive full featured CPU on the market by far, at about 1/6th the price, or less, of competing designs from larger companies such as Motorola and Intel. It was nevertheless faster than most of them, and, along with the [[Zilog]] [[Z80]], sparked off a series of computer projects that would eventually result in the home computer revolution of the 1980s. The 6502 design was originally second-sourced by Rockwell and Synertek and later licensed to a number of companies; it is still made for embedded systems.
The 6502 was used, among others, for Commodore's 8-bit machines.
Originally the CPC was destined to be designed around the 6502 processor. But when Amstrad approached [[Locomotive Software]] to develop a Basic for it with a very tight deadline, Locomotive PLC, who already had a Z80 Basic in the works, urged and convinced Amstrad to switch to the Z80.
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