Re: What if we designed and built a "32bit" Apple II?

[exegete@nunya.biz]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Ranando King replied:
<snip>

> If you think that the 1MHz, 64KB Apple II has already done all
> it can do, then you need to enlarge your thinking.  It is capable
> of much more than has already been done with it, solely by the
> application of imagination and skill--just what Woz had in mind.

Amen! Preach it brother!

NadaNet is certainly an example of what you've talked about.

Speaking of which... Can an AppleCrate machine do the following? One MB 
control a video display, another run your sound software, and can the 
two do so in combination?

I was thinking about something else you had written in reference to 
games....

>

<snip>

> But what I have witnessed in this forum in several cycles over the last
> decade is the puffery of "dreaming" about an extension that "could"
> exist, followed by flurries of breathless "yeah, wow, and _this_, too!"
> replies, dwindling to silence and no net contribution--unless we count
> it in the bad fantasy and science fiction column.

Been there, done that, scars are still healing.
A friend was sure that he could create a trubo card using a PowerPC 
chip, and just emulating the 65XX series. He was sure he could add IDE 
and ethernet. Hoped he could add VGA.

Alas, he's much too interested in the Lisa now....

Roy




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