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Re: Modern A2 successor
Ah, but you don't need Apples rom as Bill Heineman has already done most of
the work for you in clean rooming his own version.
Sheane
"Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> **** **** wrote:
Since there isn't a 32 bit version of the 6502 family, I'd
> chose on the basis of price between a Pentium, PPC, or Alpha. Power,
without the
> price. Of course, without Apple's permission, the machine is dead, because
you'd
> have to have the IIGS ROM, and while I love the 8 bit Apples (I own at
least one
> of every model except the original II and the black II), without the
ability to
> run IIGS software I think the machine would be unable to gather enough
momentum
> to see new software, even on the cottage industry level, which is what any
Apple
> II projects can only hope to grow up to be. I don't think any such machine
will
> ever come to be, but if I were pushing it, that's the direction it would
go in.
> What would Woz do?
>
> Roy