Re: Hey, idiots!

[toddpw@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

egersten@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Eric Gerstenberger (Cathedral HS 95)) writes:

>Do you all know what the primary function of the 6502/65C02 chips used in
>all the apples except the GS is now?  Open up your nintento and look at the
>one chip on the board and you will notice it says 6502--LAMERS, LAMERS,

-yawn-

On the off chance that this is not just more flame bait:

Try looking in a few other game boxes, fool.

NES:     6502  (//e, C64, et al.)
SNES:    65816 (IIgs)
Genesis: 68000 (Mac, Amiga, Atari, unix workstations)
Jaguar:  MIPS  (unix workstations)
3DO:     ARM   (Archimedes, Newton)
Saturn:  SH2   (probably no general purpose machines will ever use this chip.)

Game boxes avoid the 80x86 because those chips have too much architectural
baggage; they aren't cost effective in a low-margin product, and they are
too much trouble to work with 'on the metal' when you are more concerned
with your graphics & sound coprocessors than with your CPU...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu