Re: Your favourite [Commodore] enemy - the Spectrum, the Atari, the CPC, the Apple 2, or the MSX???

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <k2gadinji3b.fsf@legolas.mdh.se>,
Anders Carlsson  <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote:
>salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) writes:
>
>> It depends...first, what is "LNG?"
>
>IIRC, it reads out "Lunix Next Generation", and Lunix = Little Unix.
>
>> There is a more fully-featured UN*Xish environment for the IIGS called
>> GNO/ME (not to be confused with the GNOME desktop project).
>
>Possibly this GNO/ME project fills similar tasks as LNG does for the
>Commodore platform, although LNG may not require a SuperCPU to operate?

Depends on what a "SuperCPU" is...does it have something to do with a 65816
or other upgraded processor?  While the IIGS does run on a 65816, that alone
isn't what makes GNO/ME possible.  I could be talking out my *ss on this as
my knowledge of 8-bit IIs is more thorough than my knowledge of the IIGS,
but I think one channel of the Ensoniq 5503 (the wavetable synth chip used
in the IIGS) is set up somehow as a timing source that can trigger a
periodic interrupt.  8-bit IIs don't have this part.  (There was a 65816
add-on for the IIe that could be used in conjunction with a RamWorks
memory-expansion card...picked one up for free once, but the 10-MHz
RocketChip accelerator I had at the time was more useful.  You could also
drop a 65802 directly into any IIe or IIc and get everything the '816 offers
except the 16-meg address space.)

(It should be pretty obvious by now that I don't know jack about Commodore
stuff.  I never had one, and I never knew anyone who had one.  Back in the
day, I had an Apple IIe and a TI-99/4A.  Other people I knew had TRS-80
CoCos, Atari 400s/800s, and I think I ran across a Sinclair ZX81 one time at
school...but no Commodores of any sort.  Someone gave me a VIC-20 a few
years ago, but I've not had the opportunity to do much with it.)

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