Re: Is this a 6809 card for Apple II ?

["spix2000" <spix2000@kornet.net>]

As I know, Legend sold Apple PASCAL accelerator package.
It includes 6809 card, memory card and software.

Kim

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> In article <64RQa.57835$GL4.14724@rwcrnsc53>,
>  "Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>
> > "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > > Ernest wrote:
> > >
> > > >I saw this on Ebay Germany.  I haven't seen a 6809 card the Apple II
> > before.
> > > >Is that what this is?
> > > >
> > >
>http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2741687149&category=171
> > >
> > > Yes--by its looks, it's a 64KB 6809 card, similar to an Applicard Z80
> > card.
> >
> > By that, I assume you mean that it would allow you to run software
designed
> > for the 6809, like Tandy's 0S/9? Or was it meant to be used for
developing
> > software for the 6809, like the 68000 card? Would OS/9 run on this card,
if
> > you could transfer the OS to an Apple II floppy disk?
>
> I had a 6809 card like this from a company in the southwest US. It came
> with a p-code interpreter and assembler written in 6809 assembly. At the
> same clock speed it was 5-20% faster than the 6502. It sped up Apple's
> UCSD p-System et al. enough to make it appealing. I still have the A/O
> 6809 assembly language book by lance Leventhal.
>
> John
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