7 Mar
2008
7 Mar
'08
12:06 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
davis wrote:
Probably good in more ways than one. I seem to recall the suit helped
Jack Tramiel buy the company. Now, maybe not good from a MOS
perspective, but CBM's ownership of a chip fab gave the world better
access to technologies like SID, VIC, etc. It also drive those prices down.
I can;t remember if Jack got MOS from the suit draining MOS cash so
much, or if he cancelled a large calc chip order and put MOS in a bind.
Jim
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From what I understand, The 6501 was a 6800 instruction clone that
was sued into history by Motor-ola.
That was a good thing in hindsight ... it gave
them time to add better
clock
generation on the 6502. Looking back, the 6800 clock was as much a
pain as
the 8080A clock, and no IC's at the time to generate the clocks too.(
when they
first came out)
Jim
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