Another thing is that is interesting is based on what Sophie Wilson has said about the development of ARM it sounds like WDC just didn&#x27;t really want to participate in the 16&#x2F;32-bit battle. The 65816 I think was developed at the behest of Woz&#x2F;Apple, as a sort-of-16-bit successor for the 6502, no more. The multiplexed bus so they could fit in 40-pin DIP, the 8-bit data bus, the 16-bit program counter, all limited the possibility of it ever competing with the 68k or x86 platforms.<p>I&#x27;m sure WDC _could_ have developed such a competitor. It&#x27;s interesting that even now they haven&#x27;t done so. They still apparently sell millions of dollars of 65xx cores ever year, I don&#x27;t know why they&#x27;ve never made a truly 16 or 32-bit 6502.