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From: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP
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Subject: Why not 6809 & FLEX on Apple?
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Date: Thu, 7-Jul-83 17:06:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  7 17:06:37 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jul-83 17:43:40 EDT
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I too have wondered why anyone would buy an Apple just to make it
into a CP/M machine.  More food for thought:  I heard from someone
who bought a 6809 CPU card to plug in his Apple, presumably same slot
as the Z80 would go.  He did this to speed up his Pascal,
which he says it did by a factor of 2 to 4!
	Now, the 6809 has a well-established OS called FLEX
which is about the same level of power as CP/M but more user-friendly
and neatly done.  Quite a bit of applications and language software
is available for it.
	Then there is about to be OS-9, whcih is almost UN*X.
Ponder: If you want to replace your 6502 with another 8-bit micro,
why not use the latest and greatest?  FLEX has been implemented
well on the Color Computer, so it ought to be easy to tailor
to Apples.
	Yeah, I know, there isn't the applications software base
in FLEX (or anything else) that CP/M has.  Jeez, how long
is downward compatibility gonna enslave us?
	mike k