Re: Modern A2 successor

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Since both the NES, and the Super Nintendo were based on WDC chips (65C02 and
65816 respectively) one wonders what would have come next if there had been a WDC
65X32

Roy

Rubywand wrote:

> Obsbedia2 writes ...
> >
> > << Is anyone aware that the original designer of the 65816 was working on a
> > 32-bit
> > version of the 6502 family of chips? >>
> >
> > I read or heard that Apple Computer was in the blueprint stage for a 32-bit
> > version of the IIgs before everything Apple II basically stopped at Apple.
> > Presumedly it would have come out after the Rom4 was on the market.
> >
> > Jay Edwards
>
>      Evidently, there was (maybe still is) a 32-bit 65xxxx being worked on at
> Western Design Center in the mid-late 1980's. However, Apple management seems
> to have decided to scrap the II series a few years earlier-- probably before
> release of the IIgs-- and never seems to have pushed for the 32-bit 65xxxx
> microprocessor from WDC.
>
>      My impression is that WDC is satisfied with its current market and not
> very interested in releasing a significant upgrade to the 65xxxx series unless
> there is a commitment from some major computer maker to incorporate the larger
> microprocessor.
>
> Rubywand