6502 chip

[Gwyn Reedy]

Somebody tell him about bit slices.

Gwyn

-----Original Message-----
From: mrvette <mrvette at bellsouth.net>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: 6502 chip


>so you are saying that the sapce landing processor used TTl 7400 series
chips in
>an array?   or thousands of discrete transistors?     GENE
>
>goflo at pacbell.net wrote:
>>
>> The 4004 was developed by Intel in 1970-71 ...
>> Prior to that processors were constructed using discrete logic.
>> 6502 came along much later.
>>
>> Regards, Jack
>>
>> mrvette wrote:
>> > Funny, way I heard it was that the chips were developed for the space
program
>> > so what was Armstrong's 'puter processor?      earliest one I ever
heard of was
>> > 6500 series....GENE
>
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