Re: Apple II suicide--a sermon...

[jmk3@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)]

jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) writes:

>revry@pen.k12.va.us (Ronald A. Evry) writes:
>>There is no reason a compatible 32 bit 6502 compatible chip
>>couldn't have been built.

>Really?  Why hasn't one been built then?  Do you think that if
>only Apple had better supported the II that chip architects would
>have come out of the woodwork to design a next-generation 6502?

As someone unsuredly replied, the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM)
used in the Newton and some British computers is a 32-bit
cpu derived (loaded word) from the 6502. One of its key
characteristics is apparently code size/density. All PowerPC 
instructions, for example, are 4 bytes, so code can be a bit large.
I don't know the ARM instruction set though, though I did a book on
it...

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