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- From: meekins@cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy lee meekins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Western design chip
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:03:17 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
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- In article <77476@apple.apple.COM> unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:
- >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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- cut cycle counts? online cache? you're thinking too big Matt......
-
- try this one instead...it doesn't get as hot and uses less power, so it
- can use faster crystals....ahh, the easy answer's always prevail...
- but, hey, it is fun to think big :)
-
- and, yeah, it does require a TWGS/Zip, and it's about 12 MHz, not 15-20.
-
- Tim "Now approaching 44 hours and I'm out of Mtn Dew :(" Meekins
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