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by brucehoult 1345 days ago
6502 has output pins that let you distinguish between instruction fetch, data read/write, and interrupt/reset vector fetch. So you can bank switch based on all that stuff.

6502 doesn't have a pin for "IO space" but you just pick your MMIO range e.g. 0xCnnn on the Apple ][ and a NAND gate on the 2 MSBs and a 3-input OR/NOR on the output and the next two bits gives you effectively the same signal. (or an OR gate on bits 12&13 plus a 3-input AND/NAND on bits 14&15 and the output).

It was common to use 6522 VIA 8 bit output ports to bank switch one or two 4k ranges to allow each such 4k range to access 256*4k = 1 MB of RAM. You could use a 16x8 bit SRAM to do the same thing for the whole address space.