Date   : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:26:02 +0100
From   : anders.carlsson@... (Anders Carlsson)
Subject: 6502 chip available again

H Online as quoted by David Glover wrote:

> The 6502, or rather its most popular incarnation, the 6510

What is the definition of popular, an item that appears in many different 
contexts or an item that is only present in one or a handful products that 
sold extremely well? As far as I know, Commodore never allowed competitors 
or 3rd party developers to buy 6510 chips so to most part it only exists in 
the C64/128 repertoaire of computers. Actually the C64C and C128 have newer 
variants, let it be they're functionally the same. The "original" 6502 
design though branched in multiple variants and was as we know present in a 
lot of products, which in total probably outsold the C64 as well.

Best regards

-- 
Anders Carlsson