This looks and sounds almost identical to the WDC "upgrade" CPU I bought for my Apple //c oh so many years ago. Surprised to hear WDC is still in business.
The article fails to explain what *why* the 6502 is still alive and kicking today. (Sure, it's a nice core, but they're not talking about a 6502 core stuck into some modern day system-on-a-chip, but a classic DIP package microcontroller. (The article does note that WDC also offers the core IP.)) Purely for the hobby market? -Tom Relaunched: the 6502 microprocessor http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Relaunched-the-6502-microprocessor-1422007.html The 6502 processor from the 1970s is alive once again - and as a proper 40-pin chip in a dual in-line package (DIP) housing, not just as an embedded core. Mouser Electronics has added the 8-bit classic, since modernised by WDC (Western Design Center), to its product range...pin and software compatible with its grandfather...a clock speed of up to 14 MHz (instead of the original 1 MHz). _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
