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by vidarh 4227 days ago
There were several other models. Some of the Amiga models have a 6502 compatible SoC with an embedded PROM and small bit of RAM on chip for example.

(Then of course there's the Western Design Centre 6502 descendants, which include 16-bit extensions etc.)

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Wut ? Amiga's runs over 680X0 cpus.
The CPU, yes. But the Amiga 500 and 2000 at least had 650x cores on the keyboard, that implemented the keyboard end of the serial protocol sending keystrokes to the motherboard, as well as managing the leds etc.. Commodore had a long tradition for "smart" peripherals and for favouring using their own chips wherever possible.

Some searches led me to this [1]. The 6570-036 is the 6502-based SOC.

[1] http://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Amiga_2000_Mitsumi_controll...

I believe the 6502 was used as part of a keyboard controller in at least some Amiga models.