Re: Sun Buying Apple - Revival of GS?

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <4f413j$k7p@news3.cts.com>, Jim Stafford <jamess@cts.com> wrote:
>Who says it would have to be a 16 bit comptuer? What about a 65c832? And 
>don't forget the 32 bit Esoniq syth.! ;)
>
>keep on computin'
>
>jamess

And would it nessesarily have to do emulation of the //e?  Makeing it 
just a GS with a 65c832 would simplify it and speed it up drastically.
'Course, it could have a 65816 as an emulator and a slow bus interface so 
the '832 would run full speed (14+ Meg???).

The real problem with that is that Bill Mench (WDC) has not worked on the
'832 in a couple of years and doesn't have plans at this point to 
complete it.  (As far as I know.) He probably would if he knew that SunApple 
would want to make a million plus GS32's.

John

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