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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola vs Intel (who's faster?)
Keywords: Amiga runs at 3.5 MHZ?
Message-ID: <569@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 17 Jul 90 22:22:20 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.055108.22796@agate.berkeley.edu> <13229@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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In article <13229@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>its minimum memory cycle.  So while you can figure that an 8MHz 68000 and
>8MHz 8086 talk to memory at about the same speed, an 8MHz 6502, if such a
>chip existed, would be talking to memory more like a 32MHz 68000.

Well, it's not 8MHZ, but the Lynx runs with a 4MHZ 65C02 (sorry, had to get
a plug in :-)


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