3 Jan
2006
3 Jan
'06
1:22 p.m.
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 04:10 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 1/3/2006 at 3:05 PM Scott Stevens wrote:
It'd sure have been nice if the 68k made its way into the pc, too, instead
of the 80xxx, which I've never been all that fond of at the hardware
level...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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It's my understanding from reading Apple
History that the
superior 6800 was the first choice, but it was much easier to get
ahold of the cheaper 6502 part. Motorola was a big powerful
conglomerate. MOS Technologies was a hungry newer firm.
Personally, I would certainly rather have had the Apple product
line based on the 6800. But my bias is showing.
Maybe not--how many lanugages were implemented on the 6502, as contrasted
with the x80? Was there ever a 6502 COBOL, FORTRAN or PL/I? (I honestly
don't know, but I suspect that FORTRAN may have existed). The picture
might have been quite different, given the 6800 architecture.