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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Rumour I heard the other day,,,
Message-ID: <6806.27BA9666@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 10:44:55 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

Rob Soukoreff (rwsoukoreff@trillium.uwaterloo.ca ) wrote:
 >Indeed, the VIC-1540 ran faster because it was designed to 
 >work with
 >the VIC-20, which ran faster than the Commodore 64.  The 
 >1541 had to be slowed down to accomodate the 64.

   More specifically. the serial bus timing had to be relaxed to accomodate the 
VIC II's DMA cycles.

 >Question:  Is the VIC-20 the fastest 6502 based Commodore computer?

   At 1 MHz, most likely yes.  However, the C128 can run at 2 MHz, and that more 
than makes up for the VIC-20's efficiency.



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