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From: crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II... OLD?!?
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Date: 22 May 90 15:34:39 GMT
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> I have heard stories about faster 65816's. The designer, Mr. Mensch, had the
> chip going 40MHz and over 100MHz with GaAs.

Wow! Where _did_ you hear that? Either something weird is afoot, or you heard
wrong. I haven't heard about Mensch converting to GaAs arrays, but he once
said he could/would/might if someone was interested. Maybe someone is. Those
speeds sound possible, but unlikely. They would be on par with a 150/375MHz
8086 respectively, at least by the benchmarks I've seen. (Boy, benchmarks are
weird things. I can't see anyone building (even if it was possible) a 375MHz
8086 machine.)

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