Re: The New IIGS whats your thoughts?

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"Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<eRMMa.12955$JY1.12720@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>... 
> Dosius <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message 
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> > "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>  ...snip... 
> > > The C-1 is based on the 65C816, which is a 24-bit chip, not 32 bits. 
> > > 
> > > 32 bits would be cool -- 24 is just a pain in the a**. 
> > > 
> > > Michael Pender 
> > 
> > 16-bit with 24-bit address bus.  (The 6502 by your spec would have 
> > been a 16-bit CPU.  Sorry.) 
> > 
> > There may be a way to hang another bag on the side of the '816 and add 
> > a 32-bit mode.  WDM anyone?  We could make our own CPU! 
> > 
> > BTW I have thought about creating a completely new CPU based on a 
> > conflation of the 6502, 68000 and 8086 (!) processor opsets.  Perhaps 
> > a test could be to stuff it on a daughtercard with a hard drive 
> > controller and write a 'nix for it.  (It would be a 32-bit CPU) 
> > 
> > -uso. 
>  
> I suppose you're right about the 8/16/24 nomenclature -- my point was just 
> that interfacing memory to a bus that does not have 2^N lines, where N is an 
> integer, is a serious pain in the nether regions. 
>  
> - Mike 
 
mike ,you like the idea of 32bit '816 they're already on the
job!!--well almost '816
see for yourself at    http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/verhaal51.htm