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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
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Subject: Re: ASIC-65816 News
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.184556.21270@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 31 Jan 91 18:45:56 GMT
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In article <5544@husc6.harvard.edu> ehsu@husc9.UUCP (Eric Hsu) writes:
>In article <1991Jan31.065813.25807@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>>mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire) writes:
>>
>>>And then what? A THIRD brand of accellerator? Hmmm... Besides, the price
>>
>>And then Zip and AE buy from Fadell instead of WDC and we get faster, more
>>reliable accelerators for a reasonable price.
>
>I'm really glad this project is going through... but as far as the price goes,
>it seems like a big problem might be fast memory. To really run at 25 MHz,
>wouldn't you need something like 40 ns RAM?? It might be kind of expensive.
>I guess you could have a small cache of on-chip fast RAM.

Yup, you need fast RAM but static RAMs are available and that's what the
ZIP uses already.  A 25 MHz GS would be mighty hilarious.  I mean, can you
see the Gackintosh people's jaws drop below their shoes!?  Show Mr. Sculley
one of those and he might have a heart attack.  Heh heh.

>Also, what are the chances of someone making a //e accelerator out of an
>ASIC 65816? Greater than Zero, I hope.

I never thought about that.  That is actually a really good idea.

>>Todd Whitesel
>
>Eric Hsu                           ehsu@husc4.Bitnet, ehsu@husc9.harvard.edu

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