"Inventor" of 6502 Microprocessor
Peddle thought of the 6502 as a cheap
Logic Replacement...
(which would have
mothballed DEC and Motorola's Logic Chip business)
Peddle had help build a typesetting system
built around the DEC PDP-11.
The PDP-11 architecture gave him ideas.
Peddle joined the Motorola team working on the 6800 microprocessor in 1971.
His major contribution was the development of the
which provided enhanced I/O capability to the microprocessor.
The 6502 worked the first time, and was
soon to be used in numerous Videos Game
Machines.
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We all know that Steve Wozniak
Built the Apple I, and Apple Ii...
But who invented the
6502 Microprocessor ?
When interviewed, Peddle didn't know
the die size of the chip wafer...
Pavanin and Mensch designed the chip, according to Peddle.
And MOS was sued by Motorola..., after ATARI went with MOS...
MOS built video improvements
for Commodore's Vic-20 and C-64.
The 6502 based Commodore Pet
Computer had directly competed with Wozniak's Apple,
Until Steve Wozniak invented
an inexpensive diskette drive...
The Pet, like the early Apple,
used Cassette Tape Storage.
The Apple Diskette clinched it
for Apple...
The MOS 6502 was NMOS.
Apple later designed the CMOS 6502C.
MOnSter6502; a Discrete 6502 Processor
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