Inaccuracy: not X-rays. They decapitated the chip with hot sulfuric acid and 
took the photos using a couple of Nikon microscopes.

On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is kind of cool. They took a 6502, X-rayed it, vectorized the 
> photographs, and then used polygon intersection to implement an emulator in 
> JavaScript. I haven't hears of anyone doing anything like that before. Made 
> me think of the FONC TCP/IP bootstrap in it's surprising straightforwardness 
> and unorthodoxy. 
> 
> Also, it seems to suggest a "polygonal language," which is interesting to me. 
> 
> You can watch a color coded image of the processor doing it's thing and even 
> step through code, right in your browser. I really think this could be a fun 
> way to teach kids about microprocessors.
> 
> Thought I'd share, hopefully this is interesting to folks:)
> 
> http://www.visual6502.org

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