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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ASIC-65816 News
Message-ID: <15123@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:45:44 GMT
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In article <11750@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@feller.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>BTW, those of you thinking that a 25Mhz chip will let your machines catch
>up with faster PCs, think again.  Next month Intel will be showing a 100
>Mhz 80486 chip!  They expect them to appear in systems as early as 1992 ...

I don't think it's a matter of "catching up" with other systems, but
rather of enhancing the systems we already own.  The TWGS significantly
improved the IIGS for many practical applications.

Note that at speeds such as you are talking about, caching techniques
become extremely important.  Nobody is likely to pay for a PC/AT clone
with 10ns DRAM and a 100MHz-capable bus; therefore to attain anything
like the rated CPU throughput there will have to be heavy use of cache.