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From: JLS139@psuvm.psu.edu (Abaddon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Mega II (was: Accepting the Mac)
Message-ID: <90077.155936JLS139@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 90 20:59:36 GMT
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In article <1990Mar18.095408.1765@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu>,
toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) says:
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>I never said scrap the II compatibility, I said scrap the Mega II. The Mega II
>has to run at 1 Mhz and in the GS that's a big problem. If they had
>implemented
>its functions in a more distributed manner then the only part of the machine
>that would run slow would be the actual expansion slots. When the GS was

    Correct me if I am wrong, but under DOS 3.3 wasn't disk access based
in software (RAM) and wasn't writing based on critical timing loops.
Seems to me that RAM would have to be running at 1Mhz for disk access(writes).
Or am I wrong? How do the accelerator boards for older ]['s work in this
instince?


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