Category talk:6502-based home computers

Moved from WP:CFDS

 – Andy Dingley (talk) 00:45, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

• Category:6502-based home computers to Category:MOS Technology 6502-based home computers – C2B per MOS Technology 6502 Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 04:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Comment wouldn't that restrict it to genuine MOS Technologies, instead of being inclusive of compatible, licensed, and clone chips? -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 09:22, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
    • I thought that's what the "-based" was for, to cover compatibles and clones, etc. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 10:23, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
      • When you say MOS 6502, then that, to me means that the chip is a genuine MOS 6502. Since the computer and the CPU chip are two different items, when you say MOS 6502-based, then that seems to me, to restrict it to being only MOS genuine chips being used as the CPU.-- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 07:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
        • I guess we interpret the words differently. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 10:34, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

• oppose all five of these. "6502" is defining and clear, "MOS Technology 6502" is less clear, not defining (no-one using the computer as a finished device cares which fab made the chips) and fails WP:COMMONNAME as it would be most unusual to see the computers described in this way at the time, rather than simply "6502".

Also, and most obviously for the Z80, these chips did come from many fabs. The Z80 was very widely licensed and second sourced. Even the earlier CPUs had some cloning going on from the Eastern bloc (Warpac, not Far East). Andy Dingley (talk) 10:49, 20 January 2015 (UTC)