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What makes a GS (and the EV1 is not one)
- Subject: What makes a GS (and the EV1 is not one)
- From: nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)
- Date: 1996/12/11
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Vector Internet Services, Inc.
- References: <58mv94$jn4@uni.library.ucla.edu>
In article <58mv94$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
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