Re: What makes a GS (and the EV1 is not one)

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>In article <58mv94$jn4@uni.library.ucla.edu>,  <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>If you haven't seen the commercials yet, ask someone in California
>>or Arizona to tape it for you.  GM's EV1 is out!  
>[snip]
>>Rumor has it, the EV1's control systems and displays include a bank
>>of 65816 microcontrollers. 
>
>   65816s do not a GS make. I'd consider a Mega II, VGC and a few
>other chips to be required for something to be even considered
>_similar_ to the GS.
>
>   You can say it's got the same heart, but saying it's got a GS
>inside is misleading at best.
>
>Nathan Mates

That's true.  Still, that's a piece of the IIGS and having 65816s
can't hurt WDC, which is important if we ever want to see faster
'816 based IIGS clones.

Misleading title, yes, but you got to say that this is interesting
news for us GS fans.

:)

-Scott G.