MOS Technology 6507


Atari 2600 Atari 1050 floppy drive

MOS Technology 6507 - 8-bit processor from MOS Technology. It was a degraded version of the 6502.

In order to reduce costs, MOS reduced the number of address pins from 16 to 13. This resulted in a reduction in the 6507 address space to 8 KB, but still in 1975 the number was relatively large. This move made it possible to place the system in a smaller 6502, 28-pin casing. Short 6507 address bus has prevented external interrupt handling. This processor has found its widespread use only in the Atari 2600 video game console and as a floppy disk controller on the Atari 810 and 1050 models. Atari 2600 processor capacity was limited by the cartridge slot design, resulting in only 4 KB of memory. While the 6502 was widely used, the semiconductor memory prices began to decline gradually in the 1980s, until the savings of 6507 were lost.



wiki

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Association of Jewish handicrafts "Jad Charuzim"

Grouping Red Arrows

Catechism of Polish Child