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From: lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: 10 mhz chips
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Date: 9 Nov 89 17:00:13 GMT
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Doug Gwyn writes:

>>If [Apple] wanted 10 meg 65816's, they could get them.

>How?  Apple and Applied Engineering have both stated that they are unable
>to get 10mhz 65816s in sufficient quantity to base a product on them.

Oh, come on.  Who cares about the 10 mhz chips?  There are 100's of thousands
of 6 and 7 mhz chips available right now; they are totally good enough to
incorporate into a new, upgraded Apple II product.

It's the old "chicken and egg" story.  In order to develop the 10 mhz chips in
sufficient quantities, at a reasonable price, you need to have a customer, or
a large order.  The reason there are insufficient quantities of 10 mhz chips
is that there hasn't been enough interest in producing them.  

It turns out that 10 mhz is about the top speed for a IIGS with an 8-bit data
bus, anyway.  Anything faster than that actually slows the machine down.  

Six or 7 mhz would be totally sufficient.  I'd like to see this speed as
standard on the IIGS.

Lynda

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