It was the cheapest chip, and way faster than the competition, but the company making it had already been sued and had a very dubious future. In a pure short te

It was the cheapest chip, and way faster than the competition, but the company making it had already been sued and had a very dubious future. In a pure short term technical sense, it was the correct pick. But considering the bigger picture it was dubious. > While Commodore never invested much in upgrading the 6502 into 16 and 32 bits, they invested a lot in other developments. Too little and too late, the 65CE02-derived chip in the C65 was quite impressive for an 8-bit CPU. Not during Tramiel's reign they didn't. The man was famously averse to spending a single cent he didn't have to. He didn't believe in the concept of budgets, so he preferred to have to personally okay every single expenditure. If that caused work to stall when he wasn't available to do so, well, that was just the cost of doing business... When he bought MOS, with it he got perhaps the world's best silicon design team. He promptly chased them away by denying them a bonus they felt they deserved, and after that the only development on the CPU line was for cost-cutting. It was only after he stormed off in 1984 that Commodore got back into CPU development.