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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Speedy WDC Chips (was Re: Apple II
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Date: 17 Nov 89 06:38:56 GMT
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In article <113300156@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

> 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.

Even though people like Bill Mensch say that a straight 10 Mhz machine would
require 50ns dram, there is an alternative: do what AE did with the TWGS,
cache it.  Take a couple static ram chips (heck, just one) and that fancy
cache GLU from the IIc+ and build it into the IIgs.  I'm not saying this
would be easy or even take a short amount of time (which I'm sure it would
not), but if Apple _ever_ upgrades the IIgs, i hope they make it as bloody
fast as it can go, because we may never get another shot at getting a new
machine.

andy

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