Talk:MOS Technology VIC-II

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[edit] Proposed article move

This article should be moved to MOS Technology 6567 for greater orthogonality with other MOS Technology integrated circuit articles, such as MOS Technology 6522 and MOS Technology 6532. Note that these are named by their numeric designations and not their titles (VIA and RIOT, respectively). This should be made consistent. Crotalus horridus 19:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I have pondered this for some time but so far have elected not to suggest it, due to the different numberings for the NTSC/PAL variants of the VIC and VIC-II, as well as the many updated versions with separate numbers. IIRC the latter point also goes for the SID. The 'policy' isn't 'set in stone', I guess, but we probably shouldn't do anything 'rash' about this. --Wernher 19:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

If moving the VIC-II and SID articles would be disruptive, how about going in the opposite direction, and renaming MOS Technology 6522 to MOS Technology VIA and so forth?

A possible compromise would be to create a redirector for each of the chip part numbers that point to a table inside the VIC-II article. Such a table could then describe the differences of the technical differences of each chip (process type, number of pins, power requirements, etc...)