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Simon Harris

Re: How much?

Most of the pins stayed the same (all the data lines, address lines, power, and I think interrupts are in the same place on the 6800 and 6502) - what changed were the area around the clock (the 6800 required a two phase non-overlapping clock, the 6502 was driven from a single clock signal and generated ) and bus controls (e.g. the 6800 has a tristate control, valid memory address signal and data bus enable that are lacking on the 6502). Unless you were using a DMA controller that needed to take over the bus, the changes probably made the 6502 a little easier to design for than the 6800.

The 6501 bus interface was closer to the 6800 version - and too close for Motorola's liking.

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