6501 and 6500/1 (was Re: Revamped Web site up)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Nov 5 14:46:05 1998

"Hans Franke" <franke_at_sbs.de> wrote:
> using the same philosophy about a CPU, but the 6500/1
> (or 6501) did use the 6800 Bus _and_ was pin compatible,

The 6500/1 and 6501 are *much* different parts. The 6500/1 has
on-board masked ROM, RAM, and parallel I/O. It was intended
to compete with the 8048.

> Later on, the 6500/2 (or 6502) and all orther CPUs of
> the 6500 series used their own bus protokoll and pinout.

AFAIK, there was never a 6500/2.
Received on Thu Nov 05 1998 - 14:46:05 GMT