Re: What's about the 65832 ?

[Gilles Tschopp <gilles.tschopp@esis.vsnet.ch>]

John Bowling wrote:
> 
> In article <320B584A.6932@esis.vsnet.ch>,
> Gilles Tschopp  <gilles.tschopp@esis.vsnet.ch> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm buliding a French Web Site about the computer history.
> >I would like to get a maximum of informations about the myth
> >of the 65832, the successor of the 65816.
> >
> >Is it never build ?
> 
> No, WDC never finished the design (or perhaps never started) of the 65832.
> They couldn't see a market for it with Apple dropping the IIgs and only
> Nintendo using the 65816.  Perhaps if Nintendo and WDC had gotten together
> on using it for their new game machine, or possibly a 64 bit version,
> there may have been a future for it...

I recently found an interview of Dr. William D. Mensch from a 
French magazine of 1988. He spoke about the 65832 which the 
production would begin in 1990... (!) There was also a 
mysterious 65816 opcode : WDM which the interview isn't very 
clear.

What about the WDM opcode ?