Comments on: Apple’s Untaken Path https://setsideb.com/apples-untaken-path/ The Flipside of Gaming Fri, 17 May 2024 19:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: rodneylives https://setsideb.com/apples-untaken-path/#comment-2615 Fri, 17 May 2024 19:05:05 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=7443#comment-2615 In reply to xot.

Ah! The chip’s name was wrong because I have trouble with generic numbers used as names, heh. I have put your comment at the top of the post, and corrected the chip’s name.

]]> By: xot https://setsideb.com/apples-untaken-path/#comment-2614 Fri, 17 May 2024 16:19:01 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=7443#comment-2614 The 65C02 is a low-power CMOS variant of the venerable 8-bit 6502 with minimal extra abilities. The 6502 successor used in the Apple IIGS is the 16-bit 65C816. It was designed by Western Design Center in collaboration with Apple, Inc. The story that Steve Jobs held back the IIGS in favor of the Mac is popular because it perpetuates Jobs’ mythic status of being a petty, conniving villain … but it isn’t true. The Apple IIGS was created atop a heap of questionable design decisions. No one decision doomed it but its CPU absolutely held it back. The very boring truth is that WDC could not reliably supply ‘816 processors at the speeds they promised (up to 14 MHz). The IIGS is limited to 2.8 MHz because Apple needed a stable product, which unfortunately was way slower than it should have been.

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