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> but it's always fascinated me how the Z80 and the 6502 dominated the market for reasonably-priced CPUs for about a decade. Only a decade? I would argue they
by deaddodo 4y ago
> but it's always fascinated me how the Z80 and the 6502 dominated the market for reasonably-priced CPUs for about a decade.
Only a decade? I would argue they had at least 15 years of dominance and were being used en masse for ~20 (the Genesis, SMS, NES, Gameboy, etc were using them well into the 90s, as you mentioned).
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoTrue… the Atari 2600 was released in Sept 1977 and used a 6502 variant. The 6502 was released in late 1975 by MOS Technology, but I don’t think any sold until 1976. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Introducing_the_6501_and_6502 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Introduc...