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From: dre%ember@Sun.COM (David Emberson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Summary: MOS Technology, not Mostek
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
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Date: 2 Aug 88 21:43:26 GMT
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In article <11697@steinmetz.ge.com>, oconnor@nuke.steinmetz (Dennis M. O'Connor) writes:
> 
> Motorola would say that. IT'S NOT THEIR CHIP ! Has everyone forgotten ?
> The 6500, progenitor of the 6502, was created by MOSTek, by some of
> the designers of the 6800 who had left Motorola. It was supposed to be
> a superior replacement : it was even pin-compatable with the 6800 !
> Naturally, Motorola sued them, so they re-did the pinouts and created
> the 6502. Then, this other company, Commodore, bought MOSTek to get
> some in-house silicon capability for its exciting new personal
> computer, the VIC-20 !! The VIC-20 ( their's lots of them, or were )
> had a 6502. Then later the C64 came out, with an improved version
> of the 6502 ( on-chip parallel port is all I remember ) : the 6510.

I think you are confusing Mostek, the inventor of the multiplexed address
DRAM, with MOS Technology, the company that did the 6502 and was later
swallowed by Commodore.

			Dave Emberson (dre@sun.com)