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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68000 vs 6502 (!)
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 16:54:57 EDT
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> 	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
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