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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: 6502C vs. 65C02
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Date: 23 Nov 89 00:00:43 GMT
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   Tim writes:
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>	According to the ATARI 130XE Owner's Manual, the Processor in the
>machine is the 6502C Microprocessor, clock speed 1.79 MHz."  Is this the
>same as the 65C02, with more instructions than the 6502, as stated in the
>MAC-65 owner's manual?
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________ Tim Elliott                                 | ``Genghis''
>University of Illinois at Urpaign/Chambana  |  ``Enoch''  (Name of the Week)
>tle33710@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu   		    |   ``Still mourning ANALOG''
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   No, the 6502C is a chip with slightly different pin functions.  Atari just
wasn't smart enough to realize that the 65c02 (or even better, the 
65802) would be a vast improvement.

Charles Hughes
@cup.portal.com