Re: WDC and the 65C design continues to dominate!

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Scott writes ...

> 

> Press Release-March 1996
> 
>            WDC RE-INTRODUCES THE W65C02S FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM!
> 
> MESA, Arizona- The Western Design Center, Inc. introduces its .8u product
> line for low power and increased performance.  This family of 8-bit data bus
> microprocessing products includes advanced ASIC modules of MPU, MCU, RAM, ROM,
> and I/O (W65C22S) for embedded design.
> 
>        SUPPORT FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF PATENTED CMOS 6502 TECHNOLOGY
> 
>        LEGENDARY 8-BIT DATA BUS ARCHITECTURE
> 
>        16 MHz (8 MIPS PEAK PERFORMANCE) W65C02S AND W65C816S MICROPROCESSORS
> 
>        8 MHz (4 MIPS PEAK PERFORMANCE) W65C134S AND W65C265S MICROCONTROLLERS
> .... 



     Now, if WDC would just take their 65C816 and ...

 add 3-4 address lines
 add a couple address-relative JSR instructions
 go to 32-bit A, X, Y internal registers

and

 kick speed up to 40MHz,

we'd have a very nice 65Cxxxx uP for powering the next ][ generation.


     Figure fast on-board video, wave-table 4-channel sound, 32MB (expandable) 
RAM, ... . A new, non-kluge Apple ][ could come in well below $1400 and put 
Apple back into the computer business.   

   
Rubywand