Re: The New IIGS whats your thoughts?

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Dosius <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 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