> it will be absurdly cheap to make Being cheap was one of the key reasons why the 6502, despite its faults†, was great for its time. It was much cheaper to bu

> it will be absurdly cheap to make Being cheap was one of the key reasons why the 6502, despite its faults†, was great for its time. It was much cheaper to buy than the similar competition (8600, 8080), IIRC by a factor of five in common cases. ---- [†] single true register‡ (plus a pair of more limited indexing registers, three if you count the stack pointer), and a few notable bugs like off-spec wrapping if indirect jump reads from a location at a page end (xxff) which I once banged my head against. [‡] mitigated a bit by rapid access to page 0