Re: Problems in "Modernizing" a //gs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

: >>Hmm. I hate to sound like a wet blanket, but if the 65832 is
: >>pin-compatible with the 65816 then it is still basically an 8-bit CPU

: Here's the problem.  Who said the next generation 65816 would be pin
: compatible?  It would only have to be instruction compatible!  A
: Pentium evolved from an Intel 8080 and it is _not_ pin compatible with
: an 8080 or even an 8086.  This one assumption faults his whole premise.

William Mensch said so.
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