Chuck Peddle, designer of the 6502, has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer. With Bill Mensch, who later founded the Western Design Centre, Peddle and five other engineers left Motorola in 1974 after being told to stop designing a low-cost processor and took the project to MOS Technology in Pennsylvania. There they ...

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