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From: dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert)
Subject: Re: ASIC Prototype
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 05:29:18 GMT
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In article <51671@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes:
>
>Pardon, but I have been around for the last 2 years listening to Tony Fadell
>tell the world of his 'super-816,' and quite frankly I don't believe him any
>more.  I've met the guy personally and talked to him (not in the last year),
>and I _still_ doubt that he's going to be able to come through.
>
>I would dearly like to be proven wrong, but I don't see that happening.
>
>andy
>

Well, let me be the second to tell you that it is here.  It's just running
as a 2.8 MHz chip in the cpu right now (in Jawaid's machine).  Soon, however,
if I can ever get jawaid to give it up, it will be zipping along in my
Transwarp, and we'll probably not be able to tell you how it did until
Tony says so.  We intend to push it to it's limits, and keep on Tony until
this screaming 65816 is a reality.

Yea, 17MHz.  Don't worry, it's a prototype, and Tony's got lots of
tricks left, I know it will get faster.
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