From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2002-07-11 22:05:25
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Quite the little MMU in there, I would say.
They did actually put the MMU into the CPU (it was a 6502 descendant called
6509). See the SWoC pages at
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/b128.html
(bottom of page) for a discussion of the 6509 features.
> > And maybe some more. IMHO the greatest drawback was the use of a 8
> > bit 6502 compatible CPU, which was no longer adaequate for a business
> > machine at this time.
>
> "At this time" being when? 1982? 1983?
The machine came out 1983 I think. I got my first 610 1985 or 1986 when
Voelkner in Germany sold the remaining units, and by that time the IBM clones
had already taken over.
> Things used to really suck in the 8-bit world.
This is why we have sweet memories now :-)
Regards
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@musoftware.de
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