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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: History of PCs
Message-ID: <4408@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 21:28:21 GMT
References: <5946@venera.isi.edu> <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1876@looking.UUCP> <1238@flatline.UUCP> <676@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <676@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <1238@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>>I remember something
>>about Motorola saying (in a memo) that the 6502 was something cheap
>>to fill in the gap between the 6809 and the bottom of the chip market.
>
>I'm amazed that a big corporation would do something with a few-buck part
>to make life easier for the consumer; alas, the days of personality in
>personal computing are almost gone.  Kudos and Huzza to Motorola.

	Uh, I think the 6502 was created by MOS, not motorola.  Motorola
may have later second-sourced it, but it was direct competition to their
chips, like the 6800.  (Why do you think the 68000 has 6800 compatibility
instructions, like MoveP?)

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup