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Re: Why?

Herbert Fung (herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:

: I was just thinking, why did Sanyo go through all the trouble of
: re-engineering the 65816 to run at 14MHz? What other devices other than
: the GS and possible the Super Nintendo that might use it? Just curious.

Not many. But the SNES is large enough a market to justify the effort,
no? It might be that Sanyo bought into the ASIC design (ASIC like the
company, not Application Specific Integrated Circuit :), so perhaps
it was not that much of an effort for them.

Soenke

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