Re: Franklin Ace 2000

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

What about a 14, or 20 mhz //e? Or a machine that has, say, four different
concurrent sessions running? That could be done with a fast 65816, and task
switching between different portions of it's 16 megabyte memory space.

Further, at one time there was a version of LOGO for the //e that had a special
video card, which card had the TMS 9918 video chip, so that the //e had 16
colors, with 32 hardware generated sprites, all on a high rez screen of about
256x192. So? So then, it was/is possible to give the //e a different/better
video display (the TI video chip had it's own 16K of video RAM, which was
outside the memory space of the CPU, so you could free up CPU memory - anything
like that available today?

Roy

**** **** wrote:

> Roy and/or Janet Miller wrote in message
>
> >Which brings me to another issue. Some here have talked about creating new
> >]['s, it's quite possible that Laser (Central something wasn't it?) and/or
> >Franklin would sell, lease their rights to their ROMS and operating systems
> if
> >someone wanted to create a new hot ][. Who's up for it?
>
> It's an intriguing idea. But what could be added to the ][ architecture? I
> mean, if all you are doing is recreating a IIe, I don't see the point. On
> the other hand, if someone were to design a 65c832 cpu, or something along
> that line, as someone once suggested...
>
> Thanks,
> John