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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: RAM speed for fast 65816s (was:Re: ASIC and Transwarp)
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Date: 8 Oct 90 22:48:23 GMT
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In article <14053@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <7587@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>1/17000000  on my HP calculator!
>
>While that is a portion of the requisite calculation, the actual specs
>need to be determined by a variety of factors, most of which are contained
>in the hardware reference manual (although it doesn't try to teach you
>digital circuit design).  Don't rely on such a simplistic calculation..

	That's a simplistic calculation, yes, but is it not correct that it's
the LOWEST (that is, FASTEST) value you'd ever need for a certain speed of
a CPU?  I meant for it to be a simplistic calculation, I just thought that
would give an asymptotic value which would be the minimum ever needed.
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