At Bender from 'Futurama' Terminator and a Nintendo the same processor

Eight-MOS Technology 6502 processor was born in 1975. Its creators - Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch - made sure that the development could compete with similar devices from other big-name companies: low cost microprocessor from MOS Technology performance is not inferior to the model group Motorola and Intel.



Line of processors 6502 and Zilog Z80 played a crucial role in the wide dissemination of home computers in the late 1970s. People at first could not believe that it is possible to buy a computer 5-6 times cheaper products Motorola and Intel: Chuck Peddle developed SBCs KIM-1 bought up not too eager, waiting trick. Only when the Giants went microelectronics to more than twofold decrease in prices to consumers realized that cheap computers - it's real, and 6502 sales skyrocketed.

Powerful, low-cost processor used in the home desktop computers Apple and Atari, as well as widespread in game consoles, including one of the most popular in the world - Nintendo Entertainment System.





The revolutionary development of MOS Technology left its mark in culture: MOS 6502 chip served as the basis for the development of "Terminator" in the eponymous 1984 film of the year with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The same eight-bit processor, and became part of another robot - Bender of the popular cartoon series "Futurama." As explained by the head writer of the series, David Cohen, at school with friends he had to write a program compiler for the Apple II Plus, on which the chip was 6502, and it was then that the idea of ​​a robot with an eight-processor head.



via factroom.ru