Talk:Motorola 6809
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what do simm dimm stand for.
[edit] SIMM, DIMM??
Single inline memory module, and dual inline memory odule respectively. Why the question here, rather than the reference desk? ww 04:09, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 650x comparisons
Sure, the processors came out in roughly the same time period, had several designers in common, and similar design criteria - but the 650x is hardly a clone of the 6809. They're useful to compare and contrast, but they're hardly identical. What's the fascination with clamining one's a clone of the other? --moof 04:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
- The 6502 was an outgrowth of the earlier 6800. Chuck Peddle and people eventually ended up at MOS Technology, and their first effort the 6500 was deemed too close to the 6800 and an infringement on Motorola's design. It actually had little to do with the 6809, whose design was influenced by an analysis of large amounts of 6800 assembly code. The 6502 was used in many of the early machines (the KIM-1 (and other trainers), various Commodores, the Ataris, Apple I and II, ...) not for its great virtues as an architecture (quite limited, really), but because it was priced much lower than the somewhat comparable competition. As near as I could tell at the time, no such fascination was justified. ww 04:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
