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From: swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ASIC-65816 News
Message-ID: <7890@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:36:16 GMT
References: <5542@husc6.harvard.edu> <5544@husc6.harvard.edu> <1991Feb1.174430.7516@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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In article <1991Feb1.174430.7516@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (The Anarch) writes:
>In article <5544@husc6.harvard.edu> ehsu@husc9.UUCP (Eric Hsu) writes:
>>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.
>>[...]
>>Eric Hsu                           ehsu@husc4.Bitnet, ehsu@husc9.harvard.edu
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>Actually, 70 or 80 ns RAM ought to be OK, and I've seen 1 meg 70 ns SIMMs for
>as little as 40-45 dollars lately.  You probably would have to replace
>whatever you have now, though.

Seems to me, you take something like 1/25Mhz and that gives you the speed of
the chips you need in ns....I think you have to account for some overheard
in there as well......

Mike

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ram won't let me go up and edit anything...I just got it last night and havn't
figured it all out.  Anyway, sorry to those of you I promised I wouldn't do
this anymore.

Mike