Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: 68000 vs 6502 (!) Message-ID: <6012@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 16:54:57 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.6012 Posted: Wed Oct 2 16:54:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 16:54:57 EDT References: <151@uvicctr.UUCP>, <7100003@prism.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > Why not drop in 65802's to replace your 6502's? > > The 65802 is the 6502 pin-compatible version of the > 65816, the new 16-bit 6502. The 65816 features 16 > megabyte adressing... As I recall, the 65802 does big-memory addressing the same way the 8086 does, i.e. by what is essentially on-chip bank switching rather than by actually being able to generate and manipulate 24-bit addresses as single entities. Yuck. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry