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- From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
- Subject: Re: Western design chip
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.165336.1344@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Reply-To: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
- Organization: The National Capital Freenet
- References: <77476@apple.apple.COM> <1jv04uINNn1t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:53:36 GMT
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- In a previous article, unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) says:
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- >In article <1jv04uINNn1t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Jason Reames) writes:
- >>I read in the Feb. issue of A+/InCider that Western Design has a chip for the
- >>GS, the W65C81PL-E, that will double the speed of the GS. Is this on the
- >>level? Anyone have one that can confirm it really works? How about the
- >>cost? Thanks!!
- >
- >More details please... How would this theoretically double the speed of
- >the GS? cut cycle counts of instructions in half? has an online cache??
-
- Um, I think the original message (and the magazine article) are referring to
- the 14MHz chip reengineered by Sanyo, and announced last fall. The horrors
- of the three-month lead time...B-)
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- The "double the speed" sounds a bit misleading...I suppose it will double
- the speed of a TWGS, if you're lucky to have a stable one.
-
- To those who don't know: Installing a faster CPU will only help you if you
- have an accelerator board, and then only if you upgrade the oscillator
- crystal (to 4x the CPU speed) and the cache SRAM, at the same time. Here
- we go again with this discussion...ah well...
- --
- Marc Sira |
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- aa382@freenet.carleton.ca '
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