Speaking of 6502s, was Re: 70's micros still available - was 1802 problems

[Eric J Korpela]

On 1/3/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> Yet, the reverse has turned out to be true--the 68HC11
> seems to be everywhere--and the 6502 has been pretty much relegated to
> obscurity after some popularity in the first generation of personal
> computers.

> Which leads me, in a way, to the conclusion that maybe instruction sets
> don't matter all that much in the real world.

I've been wondering about this as well.  I would have assumed that for
microcontrollers that cost would be supreme.   Did the 6800 family get
cheaper than the 6502 at some point?  After all saving a dollar a unit
on 100K units pays for a programmer.