26 Facts About Motorola 6800

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The MCMotorola 6800 microprocessor was part of the MMotorola 6800 Microcomputer System that included serial and parallel interface ICs, RAM, ROM and other support chips.

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2.

The Motorola EXORciser was a desktop computer built with the M6800 ICs that could be used for prototyping and debugging new designs.

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3.

Motorola 6800 was popular in computer peripherals, test equipment applications and point-of-sale terminals.

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4.

Motorola 6800 was assigned as the chief architect of the microprocessor project that produced the 6800.

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5.

Motorola 6800 received patents on the voltage doubler and the 6800 chip layout.

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6.

Motorola 6800's simulator, MTIME, was an advanced version of the TIME circuit simulator that Jenkins had developed at Berkeley.

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7.

Motorola 6800 had worked several years as an electronics technician before earning his BSEE degree.

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8.

The first year at Motorola 6800 was a series of three-month rotations through four different areas.

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9.

Motorola 6800 worked the application group that was defining the M6800 system.

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10.

Motorola 6800 is listed as an inventor on eighteen 6800 patents but is best known for a computer program, MIKBUG.

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11.

Wiles stayed with Motorola 6800, moved to Austin and helped design the MC6801 microcontroller that was released in 1978.

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12.

The Motorola 6800 had two 8-bit accumulators, a 16-bit index register, and a 16-bit stack pointer.

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13.

Motorola 6800 had a three-state control that would disable the address bus to allow another device direct memory access.

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14.

The "depletion-mode" processing required extra steps so Motorola 6800 decided to stay with "enhancement-mode" for the new single-supply-voltage design.

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15.

The Motorola 6800 die size was reduced to 160 mils per side with an area of 16.

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16.

The MCMotorola 6800 used a new single-voltage N-channel MOS process that proved to be very difficult to implement.

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17.

Principal design effort on the MMotorola 6800 family was complete in mid-1974, and many engineers left the group or the company.

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18.

Motorola 6800 had opened a new MOS semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas.

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19.

Motorola 6800 did not sell the division but they did change the management and organization.

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20.

Motorola 6800 was followed by seven other Motorola engineers: Harry Bawcom, Ray Hirt, Terry Holdt, Mike James, Will Mathis, Bill Mensch and Rod Orgill.

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21.

MOS Technology vs Motorola 6800 lawsuit has developed a David and Goliath narrative over the years.

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22.

On October 30, 1974, before the 6800 was released, Motorola filed numerous patents applications on the microprocessor family, and over twenty patents were subsequently granted.

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23.

The other chips in the MMotorola 6800 family were redesigned to use depletion-mode technology.

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24.

The later IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter card contained a custom IBM chip (the EGA CRTC) that replaced the Motorola 6800 6845, adding many enhancements, in a mostly-compatible way.

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25.

Motorola 6800 MC6803 was used in the TRS-80 MC-10 and the closely related Matra Alice.

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26.

Architecture and instruction set of the Motorola 6800 were easy for beginners to understand and Heathkit developed a microprocessor course and the ET3400 Motorola 6800 trainer.

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