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- From: hl00@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (HOU-SHENG LIN)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Future of the II line (???)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.143542.135605@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:35:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ns1.1992Nov18.143542.135605
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- Well, I've been following this thread for quite a while now... I always
- thought a good way for the Apple II to really get somewhere would be to used a
- different microprocessor, especially one that looks more like it's evolving.
- I know, I know, most of you guys are immediately thinking of how Apple did
- that to us with the Mac, but there are RISC chips out there that's suppose to
- have programmable microcodes, in fact, it was said to be able to emulate the
- 68040/80486 at about 20 Mhz... a 20 Mhz gs sound great to me! :) But
- seriously, I'm sure if we used it to emulate the 65816, it can probably go
- faster. Other than being compatible with the older softwares, one could
- also make use of the RISC instructions (sort of like an assembly's assembly
- so that programs would run even faster!)
-
- Personally, I think if this was what Apple Inc had done, a lot more A2
- users would have moved to the Macs (hmm, but then again, maybe not...)
-
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- -Sheng
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