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Re: assembling the IIGS system source code (part 2)
<gids.rs@sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Saturday, March 2, 2013 11:18:27 PM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>> I wonder if this "Mark Twain" and the "Apple IIsi" are the same?
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> There were early comparisons of the 68k mnemonics to the 65816 mnemonics.
> It would have been cool if the ROM was close enough that the processor
> could just be swapped out.
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> How does the IISI motherboard look compared to the description of the
> Twain motherboard? Are the chips in virtually the same spot?
Not a chance.
The 65xxx and 68xxx architectures are about as different as processors can
be!
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon