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- From: "Bruce R. McFarling" <ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Subject: Re: Is there a 6502 CPU in a Nintendo?
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 10:29:34 GMT
- Organization: Department of Economics, University of Newcastle
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- uglmiller@cc.memphis.edu wrote:
- > I didn't know there was ANYONE who would say the 65816 wasn't an
- > advanced 6502--or that the Pentium isn't an advanced 8088...
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- A limited group of aquaintences isn't an sound argument. 8-)#
- I'm sure that if you dropped into the right Intel-centric newsgroup,
- and said "The Pentium is nothing more than an advanced 8088" you
- could start an argument. And if it got going, the argument could
- run interminably.
- To me, the difference between 8-bit S, Y, and X and 16-bit
- S, Y, and X would be enough to say its more than *just* an advanced
- 6502 -- but my main point is that its just a dicussion of semantics
- -- a disagreement over what it means to be 'just an advanced 6502',
- and not a disagreement over what the actual capabilities of the
- 65816 and 6502 processors are.
-
- Virtually,
-
- Bruce R. McFarling, Newcastle, NSW
- ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
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