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Why did so many early microcomputers use the MOS 6502 and variants?

So as others have said, cost of the 6502 was a major factor. Why was it so inexpensive? (Per Wikipedia) the CPU has 3,510 transistors. It's quite a RISC design, the actual instruction set is quite ...
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Help understanding TAIPAN source code for the Apple II

You might have more luck with the BASIC program from this disk: Taipan Hayden Book Version, which was apparently keyed from the Taipan: A Historical Adventure For The Apple Computer book. It at least ...
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Help understanding TAIPAN source code for the Apple II

You don't need to follow the listing far to see the problem. Line 10 ends with GOTO 10000, and 10000 starts with CALL 6147, which is $1803, smack in the middle of the Applesoft source code, which ...
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