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From: krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Speedy WDC Chips (was Re: Apple II
Message-ID: <113300156@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 10:28:20 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!krb20699    Nov 15 01:16:00 1989


     I think AE is doing a good job of letting it's customers change the
card's speed with new chips and crystals.  AE is one of the better Apple II
supporting companies.
     The only limit to what AE can do is the IIgs's architecture, or so I 
hear.  If there is some way Apple could make the IIgs run with a higher
clock rate (i.e. >10Mhz) including the ROM, RAM, and possibly releasing
the 1 Mhz timing restriction on "pre-gs" I/O.  I am against Apple supplying
the IIgs with a standard clock rate greater than 6Mhz: the machine would be
too expensive, IMHO, and could cut into sales to people who don't need the
enhanced clock rate.
     I think AE and WDC could do their jobs a lot better if Apple were to
plan ahead and make the GS capable of speeding up without the current limit-
ations.  I think that putting enhancements of this kind in the hands of third-
party developers would be a better choice than to give Apple the "respons-
ibility."  I plan on getting a TWGS @7Mhz when I have some money, but I still
keep seeing the 12Mhz machines floating around.  :-)~  If that's as fast
as the gs will go (not that it's slow, mind you) I can't help but see some
problems with upgrading the gs any further.
     I'm a humble CS major, so I'm not sure what the above hardware mods would
entail, but I've seen many suggestions that could answer the problems (e.g.
seperate 1Mhz timer for the cards, combo 8-16 bit cards as in IBM/clones,
etc.)  And I'm not criticizing anyone: I think everything being done so far 
with clock speed, chips, and all the input in this file is great.

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