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From: steyaert@egrunix.UUCP (Terry Steyaert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Commodore !1Meg/C64
Message-ID: <122@egrunix.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 17:13:13 GMT
References: <841@mrsvr.UUCP> <67911@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: steyaert@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Terry Steyaert)
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In article <67911@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> sekora-jay@CS.YALE.EDU (Jay Sekora) writes:
>why on earth aren't they making it talk to a 1541/1571?  
>at the very least, even if they don't
>have C64 hardware, they could rewrite the OS to use a few lines of one
>of the ports they have as a CBM serial bus, and sell an adaptor.  as
>far as i know, there is very little C64 software out on 3.25" disks,
>and compatibility with all your C64 stuff is a big selling point for
>the C128.  

Admittedly this is all rumor, but I would GUESS (notice, guess, I
don't know for sure) that they would make a 5-1/4 inch disk that
would, like the '71 read their own format disks, or a '41/'71 disk
too.  I would also wonder if they would include their own CP/M
or IBM emulator also.

>other than that one problem (which, of course, may well not exist at
>all--we're still just talking about a rumor), it sounds like an interes-
>ting and worthwhile machine.  anybody heard rumors about what processor
>they're using?  my guess is the 16-bit version of the 6502 (whose number
>i forget).

I believe the chip is the 65c02, but I am not sure.  That was the rumor
of what it was called, in the Detroit area.

Terry Steyaert   (alias, The Guard, SysOp The Software Pool  25 Megs
                                          (313) 463-8777)
					  
      steyaert@unix.secs.oakland.edu