Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ASIC Prototype Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 18:05:12 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 X-Unparsable-Date: Sat Apr 27 91 at 22:29:34 (EDT) |> |>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. Uh-huh, right... it's running 2.8Mhz... in one GS, and then your going to get it back and try putting it in a TWGS... I hope you know there's a large hole in you story... the GS uses a 40 pin DIP packaged CPU... TWGS/ZIP use a 44-pin package... I suppose that's not surprising, considering it's made out of rubber and it can change shapes... and bounce no less. Andy isn't the only one who doesn't beleive in this super-816... I'll even smack a person who mentions 65832 to me... I'm sure it's not impossible to design a 816 to run faster than 13Mhz, but after what almost 2 years maybe... it isn't available... maybe it should be in the Inquirer... Elvis sited using a 250Mhz GS, Big Foot sited as inventor, Lockness Monster saids they ('816) needs salt, but there nice and cruchy... OK, maybe it does exist and you guys do have it... but til I see it... I don't give $#$% about it... or seeing anymore rumors, other than if it;s straign from the horse mouth, and they're ready to start shipping. INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil