MOS Technology 6502

MOS Technology 6502

A MOS Technology 6502 processor
Produced	1975; 50 years ago (1975)
Max. CPU clock rate	1 MHz to 3 MHz
Instruction set	MOS 6502
Successor	MOS 6510 WDC 65C816
Package(s)	40-pin DIP

The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology in 1975. When It was introduced it was highly praised for its cost and is still being produced to this day as the 65C02 by the Western Design Center (WDC).

Many popular home video games consoles and computers such as the Atari 2600, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and other systems have used the 6502 and variants of it as its main processor, variants include 1. MOS Technology 6502A 2. MOS Technology 6502B 3. MOS Technology 6502C 4. MOS Technology ''SALLY'' 5. MOS Technology 6503 6. MOS Technology 6504 5. MOS Technology 6505 6. MOS Technology 6506 7. MOS Technology 6507 8. MOS Technology 6509 9. MOS Technology 6510 10. MOS Technology 6512 11. MOS Technology 6513 12. MOS Technology 6514 13. MOS Technology 6515 14. MOS Technology 6591 15. MOS Technology 6592 16. MOS Technology 7501 17. MOS Technology 8501 18. MOS Technology 8500 19. MOS Technology 8502