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Re: Which 8-Bit system is "the most" gay ???



On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:28:59 -0700, Marc Walters wrote:

> Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote in message
> news:<k2gekzooubd.fsf@legolas.mdh.se>...
>> hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes:
>> 
>> > One who willingly castrated himself could not enter Holy Orders; one
>> > who had been invoulntarily castrated could.
>> 
>> In an attempt to bring this somewhat on-topic again; which computer,
>> chip or peripheral do you nominate as the most "castrated"? I don't
>> quite know, but my first thought is the 68008.
> 
> The 6809 as used in the TI-99. It had a nice architecture, but ran far
> too slowly.

TI-99 had a TMS9900 in it, a 16bit processor. 6809 was used AFAIK in the
Dragon 32/64 and the TRS80 CoCo.

-- 
Paul S
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