[Coco] Need to Port NitrOS-9 6x09 L2 to N8VEM's New 6x0x Board

[Kip Koon]

I agree.  I'll encourage them to do just that.  I don't think that fact is
as well known outside the Coco Community.  I read an email the other day
that sounded like someone had just found out about the 6309 in the N8VEM
camp.  That is just one person though.  Someone else stated that he had been
using 6309s for a while now in the original 6x0x 3-PCB Mezzanine stand-alone
setup, so knowledge of the 6309 is getting around.  Hopefully the 6309 will
catch on with the N8VEM 6x0x boards like it has with our beloved Coco.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Nick Marentes
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 1:36 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Need to Port NitrOS-9 6x09 L2 to N8VEM's New 6x0x Board


> > N8VEM is well underway with a New 6x0x Board Project that is 
> > currently in the Schematic Design and PCB Layout stage.  It is being 
> > designed to
> support
> > the MC68B09P 8-Bit Microprocessor as well as the MC68B02P and the 
> > 2MHZ G65SC02P processors on a single PCB with an ATX style footprint 
> > and power


Why not design it for a 6309? We've seen that the 6309 can still be found
via Ebay and a 6309 can provide better performance than a 6809 (fewer cycles
per instruction when in 6309 mode).

It can probably be overclocked easier than a 6809 (3Mhz/4Mhz?)

Nick


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