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Re:A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 micro... by userbinator on Sunday May 21, 2017 @10:53AM (#14387568)
AFAIK no one has reverse-engineered the 65C02 publicly, so that would have to be done first; it'd also require approximately twice the number of transistors and area, so the speed won't be much better.
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Re:A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 micro... by CamperBob2 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:09PM (#14390246)
The speed will certainly be better, due to the way NMOS works.

NMOS is pretty terrible.

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