Re: Which 8-Bit system is "the most" gay ???

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <d7e7c90e.0308141928.5e49a8a2@posting.google.com>,
Marc Walters <marc@objectconnections.com> wrote:
>Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote in message
>news:<k2gekzooubd.fsf@legolas.mdh.se>...
>> hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes:
>> > One who willingly castrated himself could not enter Holy Orders; 
>> > one who had been invoulntarily castrated could.
>> 
>> In an attempt to bring this somewhat on-topic again; which computer,
>> chip or peripheral do you nominate as the most "castrated"? I don't
>> quite know, but my first thought is the 68008.
>
>The 6809 as used in the TI-99. It had a nice architecture, but ran far
>too slowly.

The 99/4A (and 99/4 before it) used the 9900, not the 6809...it was the
somewhat bastardized architecture of the computer (with the first 16K of
memory accessed by sending commands to the graphics controller, instead of
putting the memory on the processor's data bus like everybody else) that
made TI BASIC so slow.  (Programs running in expansion-box memory are
supposed to be a fair bit faster...I haven't had much chance to try it out
for myself since getting a fully-loaded 99/4A setup a year or so ago, and
the one I had in the '80s was just a basic setup.)

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