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Date: 28 Jan 89 04:56:13 GMT
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The 65816 is not yet available to the general public, but will be
'soon' according to Feburary's Computer Shopper.  It is now
available to beta testers and software developers.  I've heard
that it will sold with a totally rewritten, fully debugged, and
fully compatible Operating system with a totally rewritten (and
fast) math/floating point package, a compilable basic, and (perhaps)
a full K&R implementation of C.  An informative, if not overly
enthusiastic review appears in the Nov 88 issue of Computer Shopper.
As a long time Atari user, I view this with guarded optimism; I'll
get excited when I see it actually up, runing, AND supported...
If you desire any more information I'll dig up the articles over the
weekend.

-M

(XDR09@ISUVAX)