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MOS Microcomputers Programming Manual

MOS Technology

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ajross
Honestly if you want to learn retro stuff for retro reasons... maybe consider using the retro materials? Here's the MOS programming manual for the original parts, it's what Woz would have used when hand-assembling Integer BASIC: https://archive.org/details/mos_microcomputers_programming_m... (https://archive.org/details/mos_microcomputers_programming_manual/page/n23/mode/2up) And it's really not so complicated! The chip is simple, so the docs are simple. There's more to read about the history to come later, but there's also something to be said for understanding it in the context its designers presented it.