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

[Ryzome <lawncare@weedcontrol.org>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:53:54 -0700, Matthew Montchalin
<mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:

>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.

Minor desing flaw hahahahahahaha