Re: [stella] Maze Craze and 650x

Subject: Re: [stella] Maze Craze and 650x
From: Erik Mooney <erik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:33:27 -0400
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>...We have been licensing the 65c02 since 1981 and the 65c816 since 1984.
>Some systems that used these microprocessors are cable TV set top boxes, 
>German automobile dash board controllers, Rockwell modems, pacemakers, 
>defibrillators, pagers, fax machines, PDA's, telephones,etc. and Nintendo 
>game machines...

So THAT's why the cable and satellite TV boxes take so long - often several
seconds - to redraw a screen when scrolling through menus!  Heh.

To add to the list, Williams/Bally pinballs used a 6509 CPU architecture right
up until about two years ago.


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