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From: araftis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alex Raftis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RISC Machines
Keywords: RISC
Message-ID: <27027c57.48b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 90 22:25:27 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.194057.371@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <7247@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Sep27.203148.21951@eng.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Sep27.203148.21951@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
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>On the other hand, the 65xxx line seems pretty dead....
>

Actually, the 65xxx line is far from dead. It may die in the home computer as
far as Apple in concerned (I'm hoping otherwise), but it's one of the most
widly used control chips, found in many small electronic devices. For that 
matter, someone once told me that the 6502 is one of the only chips ever 
certified for use as human implants. Hopefully if Apple decides to drop the
Apple II directly, they'll decide to turn production over to another company
like AE or Laser. If this happens we may yet get to see the 65832.

BTW: Someone posted a question the other day that wasn't answered on the net.
     So, just what has happened with ASIC's 20Mhz 65816?




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