In the late eighties my beloved Apple ][ was struggling. It needed to be faster. So a friend and I decided we were going to save Apple. We built a new, faster processor—the 65816. I did not, in fact, know how to build a processor. I took my first processor design class in college a semester after we started. But we built those chips and they worked eight times faster than what was available—a blazing 33MHz—and even sold some to Apple
