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

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>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
>> .... 
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>
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>     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
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> 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.

What about the contention that the 65C02 is the first 8-bit RISC
chip?  That's what the article claimed.

Before SOMEONE jumps on me and says "don't believe everything you
read you tone-deaf idiot," let me just say that I don't necessarily
believe it.  I'm just wondering why some people consider it so.

Scott G.