Questions tagged [6800]

Motorola 6800 family of processors. This does not include the similarly-numbered but different 6809 family.

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What's the timeline of Motorola 6800-family CPUs from 1974 to 1979?

According to Wikipedia, The Motorola 6800 was released in 1974. Between that and the release of the 6809 in 1979 (or 1978?) there was at least one other 6800-series CPU released, the 6802 microcontroller with the same registers and instruction set…
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How to code for bidirectional I/O for MC6850 ACIA (680x Assembler)

I need a code listing for 6802 (or 6809) to initialize and set the 6850 ACIA into bidirectional serial I/O mode. I have two vintage boards and need to get the ports working and connected before I can do anything with them. The relevant Motorola App…
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How did the 6800's comparison operations work?

Does anyone have a quick primer to the way the 6800's compare-and-branch instructions worked internally? I'm referring to the instructions like BLS that compared a value in memory to the accumulator. I guess that it automated the process of doing an…
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