How many transistors in the 6502 processor?

Possible, but length of traces to wire all those together will keep it to KHz range and needs few large boards that needs so much power that hottest athlon cpu is low power by comparsion. I have seen photos of apple IIe prototype laid out on early pre-production logic board, one of that 40 pin chipset socket is hooked to a equally same size board filled to the 4 edges with tightly packed TTLs and few large ICs, I think it was shown in Byte as well as few other publicatons. Large board full of chips vs. 40 pin IC, same thing...Amazing! Side effect to this, you get less power requirement and can speed up whole thing and more rapid signals due to very short traces and on-die itself. That is why TTL-based microcomputers and mainframes has massive PSUs even using switching technologies and mini-tunnel wind effect to cool everything. While same computing power can be on one 4pin chip microcontroller and run on 1 AA directly for hours even weeks under hottest sun. Cheers, Wizard