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- From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Is there a 6502 CPU in a Nintendo?
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:00:55 GMT
- Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
- Message-ID: <HERMIT.96Apr14010055@ese.UCSC.EDU>
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- In-reply-to: mello.med@shands.ufl.edu's message of 12 Apr 1996 08:04:53 -0400
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- In article <s16e0ea6.015@shands.ufl.edu>, mello.med@shands.ufl.edu (STEVE MELLO) writes:
- ) I've been told that there is a 6502 CPU in a Nintendo game
- ) console and some of the other ones. Does anyone know if this is
- ) true?
-
- SNES uses a 65C816 as previously mentioned.
-
- The NES uses a 6502, but it's a special version that runs at I think 4
- MHz.
-
- --Bill.
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