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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: 65c816 (was Re: New IIgs PRESS RELEASE!!!)
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Date: 27 Aug 89 22:24:48 GMT
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In article <5969@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>
>But, Apple didn't market them that way.  Too bad.  I may end up buying
>AE's 65c816 option along with the video overlay card, but without that
>ROM (and Ensonic sounds), it still won't quite be a GS.
>
>-- 
>					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

Question: Does the 65c816 option allow linear access to more than 64K in
a non-GS Apple II?  Will it work on a II Plus?  What speed is this
option?  I assume that you are talking about the 65c816 option for the AE
memory products.

I have the 3.58 MHz TransWarp on my II Plus with a W65C802 installed, but
(never satisfied with what I have) I would love to use up to 1 Meg of
linear memory, instead of using bank switching.

If I'm right, the only choices in peripherals are speed OR memory, but
not both.  The TransWarp is a fairly simple design, because it allows a
65C02 or 65C802 to be installed and only has 256K of RAM.  It would not
be too hard to design a 65C816-specific TransWarp (not GS) that ran at
7.16 Mhz and linearly addressed either 256K or 1 M RAM (keeping the same
size, layout and number of chips as the existing TransWarp).  A card like
this would really sell (hint, hint, AE!).

Brian Willoughby
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