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

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Roy replied:

>Michael J. Mahon wrote:

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>> BTW, Adding another processor architecture, like a Z80 card or a
>> 6809 card is a special breed of extension which _does_ introduce
>> a non-Apple II worldview, but only as an alternative.  You're never
>> more than a reboot away from the Applesoft prompt.  ;-)
>
>What I would like to see, and am confident I won't see, is a really fast 
>65816 turbo card for the IIe, it could then run in 6502 mode at a really 
>high speed, or allow for some other OS (Linux65?), but always be a 
>reboot from being a standard II.

Hmmm...Linux 65, eh?

Considering what the 65816 _doesn't_ have in the way of virtual
memory, that would be a real stretch.

But, there's always Gnome, if you have a hankering for Unix-like. ;-)

-michael

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