Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pacbell!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!bird
From: bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Rocket and Zip Chips
Message-ID: <4860@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 May 88 13:46:57 GMT
References: <67.011023@adam.DG.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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>   Why is it that these speed chips for the Apple // say they can 
> speed up EXTERNAL devices when their clocks that are faster are 
> internal to them selves.  I never realized that the 6502 had its own 
> clock output as well ;^).  Can someone tell me (and the rest of the 
> world) how this amazing thing may be accomplished?  Osmosis?!?

Not amazing at all. Most periherial cards do not have a processor
on them, just a ROM that your friendly motherboard 6502 uses as a
source of program. If the processor runs faster it will execute
that program faster.


				Joe Walters ihnp4!ihlpf!bird
				IHP 1F-240 (312) 416-5356
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				Joe Walters ihnp4!ihlpf!bird
				IHP 1F-240 (312) 416-5356