{"id":150532,"date":"2022-11-19T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/mos-technology-6502"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:24:21","slug":"mos-technology-6502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/mos-technology-6502","title":{"rendered":"MOS Technology 6502"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/enHF9lMseP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To show how computer chips are improving a bit, my first computer, an Apple II+ based on the 6,502 chip, had 7 bytes of memory on the chip. Nvidia\u2019s H100 chip has 85,986,377,728 bytes of memory on it!<\/p>\n<p>The 6,502 was a very successful chip and is still made today, with over 6 billion units sold!<\/p>\n<p>(My home PC has about 283,506,646,208 bytes of memory but that is contained in multiple chips.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(typically pronounced \u201csixty-five-oh-two\u201d or \u201csix-five-oh-two\u201d)<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-Mensch_interview_3-0\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d>[3]<\/sup> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8-bit_computing\" title=\"8-bit computing\">8-bit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microprocessor\" title=\"Microprocessor\">microprocessor<\/a> that was designed by a small team led by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Peddle\" title=\"Chuck Peddle\">Chuck Peddle<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MOS_Technology\" title=\"MOS Technology\">MOS Technology<\/a>. The design team had formerly worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola\" title=\"Motorola\">Motorola<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_6800\" title=\"Motorola 6800\">Motorola 6800<\/a> project; the 6,502 is essentially a simplified, less expensive and faster version of that design.<\/p>\n<p>When it was introduced in 1975, the 6,502 was the least expensive microprocessor on the market by a considerable margin. It initially sold for less than one-sixth the cost of competing designs from larger companies, such as the 6,800 or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_8080\" title=\"Intel 8080\">Intel 8080<\/a>. Its introduction caused rapid decreases in pricing across the entire processor market. Along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zilog_Z80\" title=\"Zilog Z80\">Zilog Z80<\/a>, it sparked a series of projects that resulted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Home_computer\" title=\"Home computer\">home computer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microcomputer_revolution\" class=\"\" title=\"Microcomputer revolution\">revolution<\/a> of the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/mos-technology-6502\">Continue reading \u201cMOS Technology 6502\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To show how computer chips are improving a bit, my first computer, an Apple II+ based on the 6,502 chip, had 7 bytes of memory on the chip. Nvidia\u2019s H100 chip has 85,986,377,728 bytes of memory on it! The 6,502 was a very successful chip and is still made today, with over 6 billion units [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}