Re: The New IIGS whats your thoughts?

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Sheldon Simms wrote:
|On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:08:38 +0000, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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|> Dosius wrote:
|>
|>>BTW I have thought about creating a completely new CPU based on a
|>>conflation of the 6502, 68000 and 8086 (!) processor opsets.

8086?  Ugh, what next, a Z8000 upgrade feature, too?  OTOH, your
conclusion that the PC needs some kind of Motorola side to its
hardware to rescue it, makes plenty of sense.

|>>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)
|>
|> Yeah, that's what the 658xx needs--another "super-kludge"
|> mode to extend it yet again...   ;-)
|
|Well if the x86 series of kludges works...

hoo boy