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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 29K
Keywords: my *new* favorite chip :-)
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Date: 14 Sep 89 00:48:52 GMT
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In article <624@unicads.UUCP> les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) writes:
|also this chip works well with the vram trick, fetching inst's out of the
|vram's serial port, except it looks like they're gonna be faster than vrams
|pretty soon; they're already interleaving vrams.

But note that Toshiba's 256K x 4 VRAMs can shift at 25 ns. This can at
least take you up to 25 MHz with very little effort. (making the shift
clock takes another 7-10 ns)

What if someone made a VRAM from SRAM? With a smarter shift clock?

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