Re: Hardware emulation of 6509 using 6502?

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:36:27 +0000
Message-ID: <10b5af1b-4d77-d4bc-1485-077ef76fe4cb@null.net>
> Does this still apply to chips made after CSG/MOS went out of business?
>
Was anyone still second sourcing 6502 by then? I was under the 
impression that everyone had switched to CMOS designs.

>  Also, I have doubts about the later 6502 still being NMOS.
>
It's possible. The 6xxx CSG/MOS chips are supposed to be NMOS, 7xxx 
HMOS-I & 8xxx HMOS-II, but they have been known to lie (I think the 
later 6526 were HMOS-II).

Conventiently that covers the c64/plus4/c128, so as long as the 
undocumented opcodes are stable across all three then they are safe to 
use no matter what process the chip was made with.

I doubt MOS/CSG made a huge number of 6502's though, they normally had 
better uses for their fab. Although they had time to produce the HMOS-II 
8501 in 1988 (maybe someone at MOS/CSG loved his plus4, but the CPU broke).



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