Building the Commodore computer that should have existed

Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by mschaef on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:24AM (#17285032)

> [Atari] ST.... what we really needed was wider address buses,

Are you sure? With memory costing hundreds of dollars per MB in the mid-80's, I remember thinking a 24-bit address bus was plenty. (I actually don't think I personally had a computer with enough RAM to need more than 24-bits of physical addressing until the mid-90's.)

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Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by cmrdporcupine on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:38PM (#17286523)

I never meant wider than 24 bits. I meant wider than the 16 bits on the 8-bit machines. Sorry if I was unclear. I didn't need a machine with more than 16MB until the mid 90s.

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Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by mschaef on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:58PM (#17286703)

Agreed... 16-bit physical addressing was very limiting. (x86's 16-bit segment offsets were bad enough.)

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