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

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Ranando King" <rk@magictouchcorp.com> wrote in message
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> This is actually a reply to both Michaels, Roy, and Wayne...

LOTS OF SNIPPING to preserve space... I hate it when people reply back an
ENTIRE message just to post a couple of words or sentenances in reply.

Anyways... have you looked at the C1 project - though it is a Commodore
inspired project, it's reconfigurable and I've heard several times (and
directly from Jeri) that there is an Apple II core - still a work in
progress. Might save time, less reinventing the wheel, etc.

http://c64upgra.de/c-one/

> 1. Western Digital is supposedly planning on developing this chip at some
> point. I'm not sure I buy the line I got from their sales rep, but if they
> do build it, they have stated that it will still be compatible with the
6500
> series.
> 2. Even if they don't get around to doing so, I'm already working on the
> layout for a similar chip that can be put on Xilinx or Q-Logic FPGA
>
> About Memory:
>
> Sure, more memory does invite the risk of more bloated software, but I'm
of
> the impression that modern day bloatware is mostly caused by lazy
> programmers working with complicated, poorly documented interfaces. I'm
also
> of the impression that 16 mb should be all the address space this system
> needs. To keep at least partially true to the Apple II programming style,
> anyone wanting more memory than that can play the bank switching game.