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From: rmk@frog.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: End this nonsense comparison
Message-ID: <22977@frog.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 15:08:00 GMT
References: <6852@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: rmk@frog.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <6852@crash.cts.com> joeq@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Joe Quilici) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu

>> They're already ahead of you!  The current Nintendo uses an '816!
 
>No it doesn't, the Nintendo is not a 16 bit machine, I believe it uses a
>custom microprocessor.  

Actually, the Nintendo uses a custom chip that executes 6502 instructions.
There are an awful lot of arcade machines out there using the 6502.




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