Re: What specs would your Apple ][ clone have today?

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

On Apr 4, 3:00 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> A very interesting story!

I'm glad you think so. Some remarkable achievements were made.

> It appears that the early coprocessing orientation of the design
> team presented many interesting alternatives that were largely
> unexplored by the Apple team, who viewed coprocessing as extrinsic
> to the system's design.

Yes, certainly an idea ahead of its time, but one that _was_ actually
used in the real world. They kind of returned to this with the
Archimedes successors, the Risc-PCs. They had two processor slots,
with one filled with an ARM CPU card by default, and 486 etc cards
available. This machine could run Windows in a window and use the ARM
as a graphics accelerator.

I should also mention that the 6502 "tube" coprocessor has it's own
emulation application in the Archimedes ROM, so it was supported in
the transition.

> I have an ARM development system, but haven't yet explored it.  This
> makes me very interested in learning more about it.  ;-)

Great. Perhaps you'll discover a co-favourite CPU. ;-)

Cheers,
Nick.