Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Ole Voss <joker@on-line.de>]

> >According to an interview with Bill Mensch, even the 65816 at 4 MHz (which
> >it was capable of at the time it was engineered into the GS) could
> >outperform the original Mac, and 'Apple' purposely kept the clock speed
> >down because of this.
>
> Yes, however, the foks from ACORN (6502 based BBC Computer 2MHz) visited
> Western Design to look at the 816 and were pretty disapointed. On the way home
> on the plane decided they could design something better than that slug in their
> sleep. Thus the ARM, Acorn Risk Machine, later Advanced Risk Machine) was born.
> Less than 20,000 transistors and went like a bat out-a-hell.
>
> Charlie Springer


I have to admit, that I am not really fascinated by the 65816 either, although I am
currently developing a PDA on its basis. It is very weak on the Address/Data lines
ad could go a hell lot faster if they hadn't insisted it be a direct 6502
replacement - but maybe that's a discussion for another newsgroup ;-))

Ole

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