Chuck Peddle, while working at Motorola, was on the design team for the 6800. He and a number of other engineers on the team had a number of enhancements that they wanted to make to the chip, but the higher-ups wouldn't let them. They left Motorola to form MOS Technology, and developed the 6502 line of CPUS. When Commodore decided to get into the Personal Computer market, they bought MOS. One theory is that they primarily wanted Peddle. Chuck went on to design the early Commodore machines. (I'm not sure how involved he was in the Kim-1, but he almost singlehandedly designed the first PETs.) This is mostly off the top of my head. If I made any glaring errors (or minor ones, for that matter), please let me know. (If you do an Alta-vista search for +commodore +"chuck peddle" you will get around 40 pages with info on him.) ttfn srw ------------------------------------------------------------ Walde Techonology http://scott.cprompt.sk.ca Box 7284 finger: scott(a)cprompt.sk.ca Saskatoon, SK S7K 4J2 email: scott(a)cprompt.sk.ca CANADA email: walde(a)dlcwest.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:+>: a- C++++$ UL++++$ !P L++ E- W+++$ N+ o? K? w$ O- M-- V PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP->++ t+ 5 X+ !R tv- b+ DI++++ D+ G e* h r++ y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------