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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 6502 vs. 65802 / P16 and ECP16
Message-ID: <6984@reed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 20:11:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 20:11:12 1987
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In article <270NU092254@NDSUVM1> NU092254@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Brian Dall) writes:
>I have a question that just occured to me, and I have no refrence to look
>up the answer.
>     
>Will ProDos 16 run on an Apple //e?  Will it run on a //e if you put a
>65802 in it?

I doubt it *very* much. Most things written for the //GS are going to use
the toolbox or ROM calls just as much as they are going to use the
processor, so unless you can convince the porgram that you have the ROM and
the correct switches, etc.  This is really a *very* common misconception
that people have about swapping processors.  The porcessors are about 1/10
the computer, at most.  

>If so, I will consider much more seriously the idea of swapping the
>processor in my machine, a thought I was only dabbling with before.

Don't get a 802 unless you program, and unless you porgram in assembly, with
something like Merlin Pro or ORCA/M, which support the 65816 opcodes, you
might as well forget it.
>                                     -Bri

sean Kamath

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