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Re: The new C1
vector wrote:
As an upgrade path, I'd think the convenience of using modern peripherals
would be enough bait. I'd love an ATX-formfactor IIgs motherboard that had
IDE and PC floppy controllers built-in, and used PC133 memory.
I thought the limit on RAM was a problem with GS/OS (8 MB max) not handling
as much RAM as the IIgs is capable of addressing (16 MB)? Wouldn't a >8 MB
IIgs require a GS/OS 7, so to speak?
And an actual 65816 can only be pushed so far, in terms of speed. To break
that barrier requires a different CPU. At what point do we slip away from a
modern realization of a physical IIgs and become the loathsome Amiga One, an
emulator running on Linux that is, by consensus alone, identified as an
Amiga?
Disclaimers aside, I'm all for the idea of a redesigned IIgs with the
wildest specs possible. I just hope GS/OS 7 supports the .NET framework, or
Java.
I'd like to see a 32-bit 6502-class CPU, fully compatible with the '816,
and able to run the stock GS/OS 6.01, then improved to run in higher
resolutions, to multitask, etc. But it would have to feel like an '816
to a programmer, too. The ideas I'd have for GS/OS 7 are just these:
* Multitask 8 and 16-bit apps.
* Run //e software in a window or fullscreen.
* Support more devices.
Moll.