the 6502 is holding the place of honor among the believers of the Apple II only slightly lower than that occupied by Steve Wozniak. Apple likes to close its press releases, with a short history of the company that starts with the phrase "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II". Whether the personal computer revolution really ignited Apple may be for the dispute between the retro computer enthusiasts, but there is no doubt that is the MOS Technology 6502, which stimulated the imagination of Woz to create the first Apple-1a later Apple II. It was for Apple as important as the internal combustion engine at the Henry Ford.
According to the article on Techworld (and reprinted on the MacUser) digital archaeologists Greg James, Barry Silverman and Brian Silverman literally take apart the 6502 processor, layer by layer. Using this information, create a Javascript animation function 6502, which shows what's going on inside the chip, as is done a short machine language program. This animation, you can see in visual6502. org.
Screenshot depicting a part of the Visual 6502Appendix: thanks to the rapid eye Ken Gagne, here are two more articles about:
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