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Re: WDC's 32-bit W65T32

Paul Schlyter wrote:

In article <9LOdnTbFR4D0RNDanZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:


Paul Schlyter wrote:


In article <dv6dnTCrwbSxvtDanZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:




Why not just build an ARM coprocessor card with 512MB of DRAM and
an interface to the peripheral slot?  That would at least have
some "spiritual" connection to the Apple II...



In the spiritual world there's no need for any hardware at all... ;-)


And in the "spiritual" world there's no need for any "hardware" at
all.  ;-)



I see you've expanded your alphabet to also include non-alphanumeric characters.
Then we can play around a lot - here we go:

And in the ?spiritual! world there's no need for any ?hardware! at all.  ;-)

And in the spir"itual world there's no need for any hard"ware at all.  ;-)

And in the spir
itual world there's no need for any hard
ware at all.  ;-)

.....et cetera ad infinitum....  :-))))   If we also allow end-of-line
characters to be part of a word, the results can be particularly
interesting.....


I was simply lightheartedly drawing attention to my original use of
the *quoted* term, which I did as a cute way of saying that the ARM
processor was designed "in the spirit of" the 6502 processor.

Geez, when you have to explain 'em it's less fun...  ;-)

-michael

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