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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A/UX on AMAX
Message-ID: <741@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 16:00:02 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.060309.28669@cs.dal.ca> <37836@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan15.052135.16104@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jan15.052135.16104@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe) writes:
>>Macs (no DMA, no hardware support chips, etc (except, finally, for the Max IIfx
>>which uses a 6502 for SCSI support)).  
>
>They use a 6502 for SCSI support?  My god that's horrible...  I haven't
>seen one of those since the C64, except for the IIgs (which some one by the
>way thinks it can run UNIX)  (I almost keeled over in a laughing fit when I
>saw my newsreader prompt me if I wanted to add comp.unix.appleiigs to
>my newsrc)

Is this true with UNIX on that machine? Can't believe it.
But with the 6502 in the Mac IIfx, it's another story. They even
have two of them as intelligent peripheral controllers, running
at 10 MHz. Boy, when I imagine my old PET at tenfold speed, I
almost could forget about my Amiga! (Ehm, almost :-) But when
I am informed correctly, those 6502s are not normal chips, but
they are buried as parts of bigger ASIC chips. So obviously you
can use the 6502 as a ready building block for your gate arrays
or ASIC chips. So let's dream of a Connection machine built out
of 64 K 6502 chips or something else wonderful...

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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