Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!apctrc!zgel05
From: zgel05@apctrc.UUCP (George E. Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Speeding up old PC's
Message-ID: <563@flyer.apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:03:08 GMT
References: <2343761d@ralf>
Reply-To: zgel05@flyer.UUCP (George E. Lehmann)
Organization: Amoco Production Co, Tulsa Research Center
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In article <2343761d@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>The RAM speed is the least of your worries.  An original 4.77 MHz PC or XT
>would run just fine with 400 ns (not a typo--FOUR HUNDRED nanoseconds) memory
>chips, if any existed.  The usual 200 ns chips would be fine up to 10 MHz.

Pardon my naivete, but did someone just change the definition of Mhz?  Or do
these old machines have one wait state (two clock cycles per memory access)
built into the motherboard?
-- 
George Lehmann,  ...!uunet!apctrc!zgel05
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