Re: Which 6502 variant to use?

[Alistair J Ross <mail@ataliross.co.uk>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:17:55 +0000, Sean Fahey wrote:

> The old ][e, and by that, I mean "unenhanced" - doesn't matter if it has an
> original Rockwell (or Siemens) 6502 or a 65C02.

What exactly is an 'unenhanced' //e? My //e has a 80column card which
looks longer than the one on my old //e -- it's double the size, does this
mean it has ram on it as well? I still don't know how to tell how much ram
an apple has.

Regards,

Alistair Ross


> By all means, if the 65C02 is a known-good processor, go ahead and swap
> it. It makes no difference except to software that might use the extra
> opcodes. The processor speed is nearly identically across all versions
> of the //e -which for all intents and purposes is ~1MHz.
> 
> The old ][e, and by that, I mean "unenhanced" - doesn't matter if it has
> an original Rockwell (or Siemens) 6502 or a 65C02.
> 
> 
> "Alistair J Ross" <mail@ataliross.co.uk> wrote in message
> pan.2004.09.22.00.09.12.966576@ataliross.co.uk">news:pan.2004.09.22.00.09.12.966576@ataliross.co.uk...
> 
>> Should I change the 6502(a) in my //e for a 65C02 or the Rockwell
>> 6502(a) or just leave it alone? What are the benefits to changing
>> processors?

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