RIP Chuck Peddle (designer of the 6502)

[smatovic]

Charles Ingerham Peddle died on December 15, 2019.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/ ... ssors-dies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle

...without you, there would have been no Atari in my home, thanks.

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Srdja

[Rebel]

And no Apple 2E

[Wilson]

VIC-20 and NES too

[tmokonen]

Even those Furby toys used a 6502 variant... with no Y register.

https://archive.org/details/furby-source/page/n101

RIP Chuck

[smatovic]

...when I heard that my Amiga 500 which I got later had an 6502 as keyboard
controller it was some kind of sacrilege for me, how can you downgrade something
that causes so much fun to handle keyboard input only...

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Srdja

[smatovic]

...ahh, come on, to make the list complete, even Skynet bet on the 6502, T-800 running 6502 ISA

The 6502 in "The Terminator"
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64

The Terminator runs on 6502
https://www.apl2bits.net/2016/07/18/terminator-6502/

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Srdja

[towforce]

...ahh, come on, to make the list complete, even Skynet bet on the 6502, T-800 running 6502 ISA

The 6502 in "The Terminator"
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64

The Terminator runs on 6502
https://www.apl2bits.net/2016/07/18/terminator-6502/

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Srdja

If a 6502 was sufficient to run the Terminator, then the chess developers of the time will have a challenging job explaining why they weren't able to build GM level chess computers with it!