Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!ucsbuxa!6600prao From: 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ASIC Prototype Message-ID: <10705@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 06:25:23 GMT References: <9104192207.AA07944@apple.com> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Lines: 24 I think i'm missing something here. Why is this such a "top secret" project? The way Jawaid talks, you'd think the NSA has a vested interest in the chip or Tony fadell has used cold fusion to make the chips. Is there some reason why the 65816 chip market is suddenly so vitally important? Don't say Nintendo, they don't care about the chip speed/maker. BTW, didn't tony say that "a large texas company" had bought the rights to the chip about 1 year ago? And now, AE techs state emphatically that they have NO PLANS WHATSOEVER to upgrade the chip speed beyond 7 mhz (claiming the 32k cache is 'ns). I am very confused... maybe I'm just misinterpreting Jawaid's stance as a beta-tester/developer relation, but it seems to me that giving a chip to 1 person and saying "here, do whatever" hardly constitutes a trial run of it. I thought the 65816asic wasn't even pin compatible with the wdc. And I know the TWGS can't go beyond 13 mhz, and the Zip Chip around the same (some max out at 10, a minute few at 14 [or so I'm told... mine won't go past 10]). -- Apple II Forever | 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | IBMs get the job done Parik Rao | Amiga - for the creative mind | Class of 1994 Macintosh - buy it or Apple will sue you.