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I'm surprised there's no mention of the Mega II which was essentially a IIe on an ASIC and was designed by Apple as early as 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by js2 9y ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of the Mega II which was essentially a IIe on an ASIC and was designed by Apple as early as 1984:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_II
- Quequau 9y agoIt's a pity those chips aren't around anymore because I suspect that if folks could use them as a basis for an Raspberry Pi-esque DIY Apple IIe it might be really popular.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoThe scaling of marginal vs. NRE costs (not to mention core-limited vs. pad-limited chip area) has put us in the somewhat odd situation that it's actually cheaper to crank out an SoC capable of running an emulator than it is to implement the thing you want in < 1% of the transistors.