Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

["Branko Badrljica" <brankob@avtomatika.com>]

"Matthew Montchalin" <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Branko Badrljica wrote:
>
> |> Besides, isn't the 6502 limited to 64kB chunks.  Apple simply
> |> implemented some sort of paging mechanism to access the 128kB found
> |> in later models (IIe/IIc).  Likewise for the 192kB card which I
> |> have lying around here, somewhere.  (Though my understanding is
> |> the 1MB card for the 8-bit machines used some sort of window into
> |> memory.)
> |>
> |> Byron.
> |
> |
> |Why not using 80386, then ? It has it all- MMU and segmented
> |adressing, and one even gets a several 100's bytes of cache ? ;o)
>
> An unfortunate design defect of the 80386 is that it can't
> execute 6502 code.  Maybe if Intel could get its sh* together,
> it would design a chip that we here at comp.sys.cbm might
> actually be willing to try out.

It can emulate it, probably much quicker than 1 or 2 MHz 6502 or Z-80H
You wait a year or two and Celeron will be cheaper than 6502 ;o)


Regards,


Branko