Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!pro-cyon.UUCP!neilhncc1701d From: neilhncc1701d@pro-cyon.UUCP (Neil Haldar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: TWGS Message-ID: <8907060857.AA01173@crash.cts.com> Date: 4 Jul 89 14:03:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-sat!pro-cyon!neilhncc1701d@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 Boyd- TranswarpGS is currently being shipped with a 6.25 Mhz processor. This is because AE's source for 7 Mhz processors dried up. So, to suffice, you get a coupon that allows you to upgrade later to the 7 Mhz cpu. Myself, I've heard that AE will soon (?) have a place to get 10 Mhz cpu's at, so I'm waiting for that. There's been a little talk about faster 65816s. I believe that there is a 10 Mhz model and a prototype 12.5 Mhz model, but both suffer from poor math computation, resulting in crashing programs (or so I've heard). As to comparing a 25 Mhz 386 to a 6.25 Mhz 65816, Mhz is not the factor. It is in the number of cycles it takes to execute instructions. For instance, the 386 may need 7 cycles to execute a certain instruction. Where as a 65816 will need only need 2 cycles to do the same instruction. That means that the 65816 is faster at performing certain instructions that the 386. The Mhz only means 'millions of cycles per second'. If you've been listening to an MS-DOS guy, don't anymore!! Listen instead to info-apple or any of the info groups for Apple machines. After a few days, you'll know who the programming gurus are, and any questions you might have can just be posted to the net. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GEnie: N.HALDAR UUCP: crash!pnet01!pro-cyon!neilhncc1701d ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-cyon!neilhncc1701d@nosc.mil INET: neilhncc1701d@pro-cyon.cts.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man." - Mr. Spock, Star Trek IV