[net.micro.apple] 65802

collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (Doug Collinge) (04/19/85)

Does anyone know if the 65802 is available yet?  When I called
Western Design Center in Mesa Arizona in fall of last year they
sent me some literature and were prepared to take $100 from me
in return for a promise to deliver a 1MHz sample but I didn't
believe that they really had any samples so I didn't order.

Has anyone ordered?  Did you get your sample yet?  Does it
work in an Apple?  Apple 2e?  
	If anyone has the answers to any of these questions
please mail to me.  Post to this newsgroup, too - I'm sure that
this chip is of sufficient general interest.
Doug Collinge.

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goldste@uthub.UUCP (Jack Goldstein) (10/25/85)

    There has been some discussion lately about replacing 6502's in
Apple's with 65802's.  I don't understand what this accomplishes.  Is
the 65802 faster?  If so, how does the rest of the computer keep up?
Someone mentioned that there are many extra instructions but you can't
use them unless you are programming only for yourself (and perhaps the
very few others who have also made the upgrade).  Am I missing something?

				Jack Goldstein
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