New subject: Apple IIe System Disks and Manuals Available

14 Jul 1997

:> Technology                   PMOS               NMOS

This is wrong.  both are N-channel silicone gate NMOS.

:> # of Instructions            69                 70

What this doesn't tell is that the F8 had a very weak instruction set.
doing something like xoring a byte was tedious to say the least.  The 
8080 instruction set was far more general.

The F8 was aimed at the market that the 8048 and 8051 would later 
dominate, IE: single chip MPUs of general application.

Also april '78 KILOBAUD had an article speculating on how to use a VB 
system as a cheap graphic peripheral.

Allison

F8 chip was Video Brain