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[carmel_andrews]

Like it says on the tin....Any news of WDC's Terbium/Terium Processor (or the 32bit version of the 6502/65816 etc) As I seem to remember a thread or two here about it

Sounded like an interesting processor, combined with the various and all A8 hardware upgrades it could make the centrepiece of an A8 cum 32bit system

Bearing in mind ofcourse that the various and all '816' upgrades have been with us since 1987/8 and are looking a bit long in the tooth and it seemed that the terbium/terium or whatever they were going to call it sounded like the next logical upgrade

[Rybags]

It's coming out next year.

Apparently they settled on the name "Dertibum".

An A8 upgrade is in the works... stay tuned for "Project TeePee".

[Bryan]

Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"?

[Stephen]

Bryan, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:09 AM, said:

Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"?

Wow - that's worse than Wii

[oky2000]

Stephen, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:13 AM, said:

Bryan, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:09 AM, said:

Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"?

Wow - that's worse than Wii

What if you had both?

[Bryan]

oky2000, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:51 AM, said:

Stephen, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:13 AM, said:

Bryan, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:09 AM, said:

Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"?

Wow - that's worse than Wii

What if you had both?

Ah, the Irish version, A wee dirty bum!

[remowilliams]

[flashjazzcat]

[flashjazzcat]

I just did a forum search for "Terium" [sic] and all the forum posts mentioning the chip appear to have been posted by Carmel.

Edited by flashjazzcat, Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:18 PM.

[CyranoJ]

flashjazzcat, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:17 PM, said:

I just did a forum search for "Terium" [sic] and all the forum posts mentioning the chip appear to have been posted by Carmel.

There you go then, must be true!

[andym00]

There are development kits for the Terbium family available on the WDC site..
http://www.westernde...com/wdc/tdk.cfm


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[ANTIQ]

16-bit @ 42MHz

[Jetboot Jack]

carmel_andrews, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:23 AM, said:

As I seem to remember a thread or two here about it

Why "seem to remember" when you can search and ask the posters directly?

sTeVE

[remowilliams]

Jetboot Jack, on Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:21 PM, said:

Why "seem to remember" when you can search and ask the posters directly?

flashjazzcat, on Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:17 PM, said:

I just did a forum search for "Terium" [sic] and all the forum posts mentioning the chip appear to have been posted by Carmel.

Or why not make a hand puppet and ask yourself?

[www.atarimania.com]

Actually, it was called the Delirium.

--
Atari Frog
http://www.atarimania.com

[Bryan]

Remo is right. I am a retard. I just got Gary's joke.

I think I read the forum too fast when I'm at work. Yeah, that's it...

[fibrewire]

I contacted the developer of the Turbinan chip. Here's a helpful video.

[JamesD]

As I said before, I downloaded literature talking about the planned CPU a long time ago.
A short while later their developer tool gets renamed what the CPU code name had been and all Terbium CPU info disappears from the website.
That was what? 10 years ago? And the CPU was originally planned 15 years ago?
Face it, the project got canned.

[Rybags]

The 6502 has done well to survive as far as it has. It quite possibly is the most common CPU in existence when you count the successors and imbedded applications.

But there's stiff competition from the likes of PICs, Propeller, AVRs and these other doodads that have onboard Java processing.

It wasn't so long ago that Intel discontinued it's imbedded version of the '286 (or was it '386 ?) - so the 6502 will outlive that by a good 15 years or more.

[GroovyBee]

Rybags, on Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:11 AM, said:

It quite possibly is the most common CPU in existence when you count the successors and imbedded applications.

I think that honour goes to the 8051 which has shipped several billion units since it came out in 1980.

[andym00]

GroovyBee, on Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:21 AM, said:

Rybags, on Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:11 AM, said:

It quite possibly is the most common CPU in existence when you count the successors and imbedded applications.

I think that honour goes to the 8051 which has shipped several billion units since it came out in 1980.

Surely ARM gets that with their January 2011 report that they'd shipped 15 Billion processors.. Which is a staggering number quite frankly!

[GroovyBee]

andym00, on Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:49 AM, said:

Surely ARM gets that with their January 2011 report that they'd shipped 15 Billion processors.. Which is a staggering number quite frankly!

Thats an impressive number. However I was trying to compare 8 bitters .