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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The A3000 and the non-custom chips
Message-ID: <11266@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 May 90 03:13:46 GMT
References: <11577@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <11577@netcom.UUCP> mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) writes:
> Now that the A3000 is upon us, can anyone tell me what the E-clock rate is?
> Also, is that the signal being fed to the CIA chips to provide clock pulses,
> or is the CIA chip clock something else again?

The E-clock is the same old 715Khz that it's always been, however it's being
generated by the bus control logic instead of the processor chip (no e-clock
on the 030).  This preserves software compatibility at the expense of a few
wait states when doing 8520 accesses.

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