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