Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ASIC news (the 25 Mhtz GS) Message-ID: <14022@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 5 Oct 90 05:35:33 GMT References: <6206662@ub.cc.umich.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) writes: >Only one problem - where are we going to get a IIgs motherboard that can >handle that kind of speed? Where will we get memory that can handle it? > Or is it already available? The motherboard doesn't have to see the higher CPU clock rate. That is why the TransWarp/GS contains its own cache. You could use the ASIC chip in a TWGS card. (For speeds higher than about 9MHz you'll need to replace the TWGS cache with faster RAM.)