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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: Nintendo
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:34:13 GMT
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In article <2043@rodan.acs.syr.edu> razeh@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Robert A. Zeh) writes:
>
>I don't know about any of the old ones, but one of my friends and I decided
>to find out what kind of a chip was inside his Nintendo, so we took his
>apart... All of the chips inside were custom.
>Robert A. Zeh
>razeh@rodan.acs.syr.edu   |   "Conditioning is an explanation, not an
>razeh@sunrise.bitnet      |    excuse." -  Spider Robinson

 I am sure that a few years ago, Nitendo was hiring 6502 assembly language
programmer for their Home Video Entertainment System. So at least their
custom processor is based on 6502 or sort of.


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