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kristopolous on Oct 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall o...

oh sure, design an entire cpu on a 6502 with 128kb of ram, no problem.

It's wild how spoiled we are. The ATmega328p on a $10 Arduino Nano is 10x faster than that

tom_ on Oct 7, 2023 [–]

Probably more like 64 KB, assuming 6502 second processor...

(Actual usable space is less! The second processor's onboard OS uses 2 KB. The BASIC interpreter uses 16 KB for its code plus another approx 1.1 KB for workspace.)

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