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"On The Edge" by Brian Bagnall suggests that WDC was a spin-off from Commodore-- to 'syngergize' two recently acquired companies. Are there other references to this? 203.14.156.192 (talk) 18:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The following excessive commentary was moved out of the article to here on the talk page. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 00:02, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A {{fact}} tag was added to the text on the entry for the W65T32 that this editor was concerned about. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 00:04, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Previous versions of this article gave the following as "in development as of February 2007", with no supporting references:

Name	Type	Comments
W65T32 Terbium	32-bit CPU	A compatible 32-bit follow-up to the W65C816. The Terbium is named after the 65th element as 65 is the prefix to all of WDC's microprocessor number identifiers. The chip has a 32-bit address bus, a 16-bit data bus, and a variable length instruction set.

At the present time (October 2009) there is no sign of a 32-bit CPU from WDC. Postings in various discussion groups on the Web suggest that WDC first claimed to have one under development before the end of 2005, and that early versions of a company announcement mentioned plans for it. The present version of the announcement <ref>http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/200701-eMailer.cfm</ref> (dated 2007) and the indexed parts of the WDC site now make no mention of it.

Various other locations on the Web (mostly associated with Atari) seem to have copied each other in claiming that the WDC65T32 had been released, but I have found no independent verification of this.

I apologise for the lack of documentation on the (non-)existence of the WDC65T32. The previous text made unsupported claims that it was under development, and I thought it best to replace them with something! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arnold the Frog (talk • contribs) 14:17, 13 October 2009