[Coco] The CoCo

[Ward Griffiths]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:27 am, Allen Huffman wrote:
> > What is "Macs", actually?   What CPU does it use?  thanks.
>
> Er, Apple Macintosh.  PowerPC (the big, big brother of the Motorola
> 6809 ;).
>
> 'course, a Java version could also run under Linux and other
> operating systems, using a native version of the emulator if one was
> available. Hrm.  Could be fun.  I wonder if anyone has built a 6809
> compiler in Java?  I know there is a CoCo emulator written in Java.

I think he was asking for clarification on which Mac CPU line, whether 
68xxx or PPC.  And the PPC isn't really a relative of the 6809 except 
maybe by shotgun marriage.
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