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Re: 64E4 - MOS technology 32 bit 68K competitor?
« on: January 01, 2013, 07:42:56 AM »
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If you had a $2 dollar 6502 chip and a $6 dollar Z80 chip...
The C128 had a Z80 chip.
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...which do you think would win out?  6502?
The 6510.
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Would you want to borrow 2 million or 6 million for a million units?
The C128 sold about 6 to 8 million units.

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Re: 64E4 - MOS technology 32 bit 68K competitor?
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2013, 07:55:55 AM »
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Why was the SID chip team only given a month to design the SID chip and what happened to them after the first month?
What happened to the original MOS team?
Why didn't Commodore fix the hardware in the 1541 making it faster?
What happened to the Commodore LCD prototype?
Why didn't Commodore invest in schools after the Commodore Pet?
Why were Ram expanders separate for the Commodore 64 and 128 instead of put on the computer?
Where was the Commodore hard drive?  They never invested in one.
What happened to the Commodore light pen?  It was never released.
What happened to the Commodore Midi keyboard?  It was only released in the Netherlands.

Many of those questions are answered in Brian Bagnall's Commodore book.  Also many of those questions have been answered in CBM engineer Bil Herd's videos posted on-line.  For more specifics, why don't you shoot your questions to Bil at http://www.c128.com ?

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Re: 64E4 - MOS technology 32 bit 68K competitor?
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2013, 08:11:12 AM »
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I don't know of anyone who has a Commodore B128.
Fortunately, my friends and acquaintances own B128s - PET gurus Larry Anderson and Mike Naberezny, vice-president of the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists (MARCH) Bill Degnan, and C= master repairman Ray Carlsen.  In fact, we had Larry's B128 for users to play with at the Commodore Vegas Expo v8 last July 28-29.  We ran some programs off of Mike Hill's product, PETdisk, when my MSD SD-2 was failing to recognize inserted floppy disks.

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Re: 64E4 - MOS technology 32 bit 68K competitor?
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2013, 09:17:19 AM »
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That is unfair answer because...

Nobody said anything being fair.  :)

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Re: 64E4 - MOS technology 32 bit 68K competitor?
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2013, 09:26:06 AM »
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Is the book going to pick up on this?  I haven't read the book...

Enough said.

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