The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many famous 8-bit machines from the likes of ...

如果一台个人电脑的「大脑」比一顿晚餐还便宜，会怎样？1975 年，一群前摩托罗拉工程师用行动证明了这种可能，并就此改写了计算历史。他们推出的 MOS Technology 6502 处理器仅售 25 美元，不仅为Apple II、 Commodore PET 和雅达利 2600 等传奇设备注入核心动力，其 ...

和MOS Tech的6502一样，Z80对系统的兼容性要好于Intel 8080，而且成本比8080/8085以及摩托罗拉的6800要低。这种易用性以及低成本 ...

微软上周开源了Windows出现之前、创办人比尔盖茨等人撰写的MOS 6502 BASIC程序源码。 多年来计算机玩家是在网络上搜索及下载MOS 6502 BASIC非官方或断简残篇版本，将之重建并执行在现代计算机上，而计算机博物馆收藏的也是不完整版。这是微软官方首次公布完整6502 ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

IT之家 9 月 4 日消息，科技媒体 WinAero 昨日（9 月 3 日）发布博文，报道称微软以开源许可方式，发布 1976 年由比尔・盖茨（Bill Gates）与瑞克・韦兰德（Ric Weiland）共同开发的 MOS 6502 BASIC 解释器（interpreter，直接读取并执行源代码的程序）源代码。 这款解释器由 ...

Over on YouTube, [Ben Eater] pursues that classic 8-bit sound. In this video, [Ben] integrates the MOS Technology 6581 Sound Interface Device (SID) with his homegrown 6502. The 6581 SID was famously ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from TechWorld. A team of chip archaeology enthusiasts is making headway on “imaging” for posterity the hugely-influential but now little-understood ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...