21 Nov
2009
21 Nov
'09
2:14 a.m.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Chuck Peddle told me a couple of months ago that the
6502 was never
intended to be a general-purpose microprocessor, it was designed to
be a replacement for hard-wired logic.
Hmm. Ken Olsen once told me the same thing about the PDP-5. Except for
the "micro" bit, of course.
--
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net