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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola vs Intel (who's faster?)
Keywords: Amiga runs at 3.5 MHZ?
Message-ID: <291@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 06:39:28 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.055108.22796@agate.berkeley.edu> <13229@cbmvax.commodore.com> <569@oregon.oacis.org>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <569@oregon.oacis.org> jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS) writes:
>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 :-)

I always thought the Lynx runs a 68000 and they need Amigas to create the
software for it? Or is it only because of the HAM display?

But as an old 6502 fanatic (I looove my CBM 8032!) I have to throw in this:
I read in an article about one world championship of chess computers that
the near winner was a 6502 with 11 MHz, and hear: it was said not to be
a chip but redesigned in discrete TTL logic! (In the end it lost against
a full blown 68020, it's 2 or 3 years ago).
Also in the new Apple Mac IIfx they say they have even TWO 6502 as parts
of their peripheral controllers running at 10 MHz.
I would really like to boost my old 8032 to 10 MHz...

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