Re: Intel vs 6502

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

Exegete wrote:

> Question: Given the history behind them, wouldn't the Motorola chips 
> have a more "natural" interface to the 65816?
>
> Roy

Well possibly that's why they were used. There were at least two maths 
coprocessor cards for the Apple II, and I think both of them used the 68881.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
________________________________________________________________________
"So we went to Atari and said, 'We've got this amazing thing, even built
with some of your parts and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll
give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work
for you.' They said 'No'. Then we went to Hewlett-Packard; they said,
'We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet'."

      Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and
      H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer