---
title: "Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc
source_url: https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2023-12-13T18:27:32.877Z
updated: 2026-03-15T07:14:15.840Z
tags: ["retrocomputing"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502 processor, discusses his engineering career, the development of the 6502, and the popularity of the 65x series chips among retrocomputing enthusiasts.

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