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From: bjm@RIO.MT.CS.CMU.EDU (Bret Musser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: re: Myarc Geneve
Message-ID: <5539@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 89 14:49:18 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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re: 9995 vs 9900 speeds....

I guess I didn't state myself too well...  Here's what I meant:
  by Myarc's misleading standard, that the Geneve is a "12 MHz" 
  machine, then you could say the same about the TI-99/4A, because
  both use a 12MHz external crystal.  

I do agree that the 9995 *is* a faster chip.  It incorporates a 
number of secondary chips that were needed on the 9900 on the same
piece of silicon.  Register memory is on-board.  It pre-fetches
instructions.  And the microcode is much more optimized, however,
it is *not* a RISC chip, as has been written by Chris Bobbit I think.

BJM