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From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher)
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Subject: Re: InCider's comments on the new //GS
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 10:06:52 EDT
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> 
> I saw the "apple light" demo too.  I cringed when the picture of
> the guy playing the sax disolved into the combo.  I saw that old
> fill-in-inbetween-the-lines video behavior that I've learned to
> HATE so well on the ][ and //e!!  Somebody pleeze tell me that they
> were just doing the disolve that way for effect, rather than
> becuase adjacent sceen pixels aren't adjacent memory (be honest)!

OK, I'll tel you, yes the video is contiguous.  It's a 32 K block of
RAM, they supposedly went to great lengths to do this because the RAM is 
not physically contiguous for electrical reasons, so they remapped it
so that the address would be contiguous.

> 
> I have to admit that no text page in the 16 bit mode is peculiar.
> I guess that is Apple being Apple again.
> 
> 
> One thing positive that I can say is that the 65816 is a pretty
> neat CPU.  I'd like to get my hands on a //GS to dhrystone it.
> From what I've read, the claims are that the 3 MHz65816 can beat an 8
> MHz 68K chip.  Also WDC promised a 65832 that fits the same socket
> by 1987.

Yes this chip really screams, it's close to being a RISC (Reduced
Instruction Set Machine) technology chip.  It's interesting how the
hardware world has come full circle and the 65xxx family is still
viable.


Rick Fincher

Ranger@ecsvax