Re: Can an apple II take a C64 microprocessor?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <19991111013836.02137.00000226@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

>>Hmmm...what exactly is this 65802 thingy?  Also, I've heard rumours of
>>the existence of a 65832...is that real or myth?
>
>The 65C802 is a crippled 65C816 that has been made to be
>pin compatible with the 65C02.  To do this, WDC had to
>reduce the 24-bit address (16MB memory space) of the
>65C816 to just the 64k the 65C02 can access.

That's not a very good description. A better one is that a 65802 is a 65816
in a 6502 pinout compatible package. All the bank select registers etc are
still there and can be used, they just have no effect.

>The only real use for a 65C802 is to put in place of a CPU
>that's normally a 65C02.

That's what it was made for.
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