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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ASIC-65816 News
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Date: 9 Feb 91 15:21:22 GMT
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>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
>(yeah, probably *LATE* 1992).  Don't forget, the rest of the world
>isn't standing still while the 65xxx tries to catch up...
>**** Randy Hyde

Yeah right, you know how much heat even a 16MHz 386 puts out? At 100MHz, it
wouldn't burn your computer, it would burn down your HOUSE!!!!!

Actually, I think that it was ALR that attached a Piezo-cooler to a stock 486
and got it running up to 50MHz (I think the brand name was Ice Cube). They
said that they had no intention of putting this is a production machine
though. I expect Intel is getting a special chip from their 40MHz 486 batches
and doing the same thing. I'm sure this thing will pass FCC regualtions!!!!!
It certainly won't make CSA certification, if teh cooler ever fails then it
becomes a fire hazard immediately. It likely exceeds 10W of power dissipation
(this is more than the speakers in my stereo  :). 

Personally I think that it would take at least a 100MHz '486 to emulate a
complete GS system even at 2.8MHz. This is the criterion for speed that
interests me, the fastest machine in the universe is useless unless it runs
the software that I have now.

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