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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: ASIC Prototype
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Date: 20 Apr 91 10:36:31 GMT
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In article <8686@crash.cts.com> greggb@pro-fred.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from bazyar@ernie
>If this chip is reality, answer just one question for the inquiring minds 
>in netland:  Is this chip 1) a direct replacement for the 65c816, 2) on 
>its own card, or 3) an add on for another vendor's card?  (Vendor name
>please... :)

	Maybe you're new to the net. All of this has been talked about 
before.

	Yes, it is a direct replacement, but not on the motherboard.

	It won't have its own card, because they're just making the CPU,
not a whole accelerator. While they realized the GS would be a good market,
there are undoubtedly other potential buyers for this chip. Hell, redesigning
a chip JUST for the GS market (UNFORTUNATELY) wouldn't be good business
sense, if there were no other markets for the chip. (Because there's what,
a million GSes out there? Probably more than half of them are in schools
and won't get accelerators.. The rest of the people probably won't get
accelerators or have TWGSes, which apparently won't be able to use this chip)
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