View Full Version : This is Topic #6502... Trivia Time!
Blackjax
07-27-2003, 02:29 PM
Ok, video game geek coming out in me. But you have the question. LOL
kainemaxwell
07-27-2003, 02:49 PM
Central CPU used in the NES.
calthaer
07-27-2003, 03:11 PM
The question makes the answer kind of obvious, even if you don't happen to know it.
l_lamb
07-27-2003, 06:52 PM
It's the processor used to build Bender (saw it during the F-ray/Slurm episode this week).
chadtower
07-28-2003, 10:00 AM
The 6502 is the chip used in a lot of things, IIRC the Apple IIe among them. The real significance of the 6502 isn't that it's the NES chip but that it's a superset (instructionwise) of the 6507, which was in the 2600 and I believe the first microcontroller of its kind. A truly revolutionary piece of technology.
BTW, calling the 6502 a CPU is a very generous name... it implies that the chip can do a lot more than it can.