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From: rankins@argentina (raymond r rankins)
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Subject: Re: Transwarp GS or Zipchip GSX?
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Date: 13 Dec 90 17:40:33 GMT
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In article <10571@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, rhyde@ucrmath (randy hyde) writes:
>Zip GSX: 8 Mhz 8 Chips.
>TWGS 6.25 Mhz High chip count
>Okay, which is *faster*?
>(Having a slightly higher clock frequency does *NOT* make
>the GSX necessarily faster).

But how much cache RAM does the TWGS have?  Is it expandable?  I've been
told that upgrading the ZipGSX to 64k of cache ram makes for a noticeable
speed increase.  And it also was designed for easier upgrading to a
faster CPU.  How easy is it to upgrade the CPU on the TWGS?

I'll give AE credit for coming out with the TWGS when they did, and it's
apparently worked quite well (once they got the bugs worked out, i.e., DMA
PAL problem, etc.) but it appears to me that Zip took their time and
came out with a better engineered product.

Ray

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