Though it could have been based on an estimate, the chip name/number, was
conjured up long before there could have been an accurate transistor count.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: How many transistors in the 6502 processor?
> > > 68000 68K transistors 44 mm^2
> >
> > I thought this was an interesting coincidence... the 68K transistor
> > count I mean.
>
> Tradition holds that the 68,000-transistor count gave the chip its name.
> Someone here can confirm or deny, perhaps?
>
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