The
6800 is a
microprocessor produced by
Motorola and released shortly after the
Intel 8080 in
1975. It had 78 instructions, including the undocumented HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) bus test instruction. The 6800 evolved into the
Motorola 6801[?] and
6803[?], and eventually the greatly upgraded
6809.
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