Re: Dead Amiga? --- Live Apple

[kws@delphi.com]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:
 
>     How about this: Apple arranges with WDC to produce an 80MHz version
>of the 65C816. They stick the new microprocessor, 64MB of RAM, a 6.5GB
>hard disk, 32x CDROM drive, 1.4MB disk drive, a good fast 3D-capable
>video chipset plus XVGA output, wavetable sound chipset, high-speed
>serial I/O, game controller port, and 8-bit interface into a compact
>tower case. Call it the "Apple II Power Box" and sell it to ...
 
ROTFLMAO.  Why the hell would anyone make a new computer and use a crippled,
non-existant 80Mhz processor?  I *like* the 65816, but it lacks power
(no multiplication or floating point support), registers (3 general purpose
ones compared to 32 or more in modern chips), is 16 bit, can only access
16 megabytes of RAM (so 64MB wouldn't do much good), uses a queer
segmentation scheme, has a 64k stack, and lacks memory protection.
 
Apple's done a lot of brain dead things, but they're not goin to release
any more Apple II computers.  There will never be a "GS+."  Get over it.