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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!unknown
- From: unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Western design chip
- Message-ID: <77476@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 06:37:19 GMT
- References: <1jv04uINNn1t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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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??
-
- Anyway, is this counting if you already have a Zip, and/or will this
- hypothetical chip come in 15-20 MHz versions?
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