Date   : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:56:59 +0000
From   : me@... (David Glover)
Subject: 6502 chip available again

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Relaunched-the-6502-microprocessor-1422007.html

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The 6502 processor from the 1970s is alive once again ? and as a proper 
40-pin chip in a dual in-line package (DIP) housing, not just as an embedded
core. Mouser Electronics has added the 8-bit classic, since modernised by
WDC(Western Design Center), to its product range, making it available in
the UK for ?4.90.

Apparently, the W65C02S6TPG-14 ? its current name ? is pin and software 
compatible with its grandfather, a 1975 drawing board design by Bill Mensch 
and Chuck Peddle that was later used in the early Apple and Commodore computers 
as well as the UK's own BBC Micro. Like other members of the 6502 family, 
the W65C02S6TPG-14 offers an extended set of instructions and a clock speed
of up to 14 MHz (instead of the original 1 MHz). Incidentally, WDC also offers
a "virtual" version of the 65C02: an IP core designed for field-programmable
gate arrays (FPGAs).

The 6502, or rather its most popular incarnation, the 6510, never went extinct 
even after the golden age of home computers came to an end. The 6510-based 
Commodore 64 continued to be popular on the demo scene throughout the 1990s 
and the first decade of the 21st century while the cc65 project still offers
a freely re-distributable, modern, high-performance tool chain of cross assemblers
and compilers for the micro processor family.

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