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Subject: 65802
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Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 26 20:10:00 1987
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A friend of mine received a free copy of a book on programming the 68516, as
well as the 65802, 65C02 and of course the 6502.  I find that miraculously,
the 65802 is pin compatible with the 6502, therefore, if I understand the
book, can be plugged right in where the 6502 used to be (in my 64K II+).

My questions are 1) is this indeed possible? and 2) what does this buy me?
Am I then left to program in machine code? assembler (whose?) or is there
any software out there which would use the new chips 16 bit capabilities.
I do a lot of work with floating point arithmetic, so any speedup would be
appreciated.

Lyman Hurd