Posted By
Litwr
on 2015-10-29
13:57:21
|  Re: Commodore Basic's oddnesses
Commodore itself had an oddity - they didn't upgrade things. They might force the usage of C1581 by releasing games (like Ultima 6) on 3.5" disks... They ignored Moore's law producing 6502 without modification during almost 20 years. Try to imagine C64 which uses 6502 with 6 MHz. This CPU might use C+4 technology to give 1MHz cycles to VIC and SID and work at IBM AT speed! They might also add one or two segment registers and make 1MB or more RAM addressable with 100% compatibility with old software... It is the mystery why they didn't make cheaper and compatible with IEC bus version of SFD1001 at the mid 80s?... However the same oddity had Sinclair and a lot of other microcomputer producers.
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