Check this out for a rumour...

[John Le Febvre <john@klatch.demon.co.uk>]

Heard this at the weekend folks - I have not heard anything about
this before so thought I should pass it on...

Apparently Western Design Center Inc, makers of the 65c02 and 65c816 
microprocessors have decided to launch their own computer 'to fill 
the gap where the Apple II line left off'.  It would appear they have
been busy extending the 65xxx family of processors and have a 65c16s (a 
low power version of the 65c816 for hand-helds etc) and a 65c265 (a 
65c816 with built in I/O circuitry making a complete 
computer-on-a-chip).  This chip will be in the new computer, called a
'Mensch' after the designer William D. Mensch.  Although this is not
Apple compatable, it fulfills WDC's philosophy that the average 
computer user does NOT need the Mb and Mhz of the modern computer.
It should be available to the public now.

ALSO, and much more importantly, WDC have a 65c832 processor on the 
drawing board, making a 32-bit Apple II at least possible.

Western Design Center Inc
2166 East Brown Road
Mesa, Arizona 85213
(602) 962-4545

Anyone fancy lobbying WDC and/or Apple on this one??

How about a discussion here to say what YOU would want in a new Apple 
II?  SS SVGA & RF SCSI as standard, max 4Gb RAM etc etc - the 
possibilities are endless...

Also a discussion of some of the perceived technicalities..?  For 
example, we have a IWM chip, how about a IIgs-on-a-chip?

Think what a 33Mhz Apple II would run like. 8)
-- 
John.
john@klatch.demon.co.uk