Re: Apple II suicide--a sermon...

[kjjohns@L10SUN6.relay.nswc.navy.mil (KevinJohnson)]

In article <3mi79r$sih@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) writes:

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> revry@pen.k12.va.us (Ronald A. Evry) writes:
> >There is no reason a compatible 32 bit 6502 compatible chip
> >couldn't have been built.
> 
> Really?  Why hasn't one been built then?  Do you think that if
> only Apple had better supported the II that chip architects would
> have come out of the woodwork to design a next-generation 6502?
> 

Wasn't the ARM RISC chip being used in the Newton built ar a replacement
for the 6502 being used in the educational computers in England?  I think
I read that in Byte when the Newton first came out.  I don't remember if
it was totally compatible or not, but I always wondered what it would be
like to have a GS built around that chip.