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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: ASIC-65816 News
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:49:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.202122.22109@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9242@uwm.edu> <1991Jan31.065813.25807@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <9261@uwm.edu>
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In article <9261@uwm.edu> mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire) writes:
>In article <1991Jan31.065813.25807@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>>Tony Fadell's project is making the CPU itself run faster. He doesn't make
>>accelerators.
>
>Well, Todd, I trust you know what you are talking about. But I don't 
>understand the whole workings of an accellerator (as long as it works! :-)
>But isn't a faster CPU in effect an accellerator? Or how do they do it
>now? Sorry about the dumb question, but I really don't understand!

Just plugging a faster CPU into your computer won't make it run faster.
It requires a lot of support circuitry, cache RAM and other stuff. The
"ASIC" is just a CPU. If you plug that into your GS, you'll still be running
at 2.8Mhz (or maybe you won't be running at all, the ASIC has a differeng
packaging than what's in the GS, right?). You need an accelerator to speed
up your computer.

>Daniel Gross


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