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From: A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Thanx for the reminder! (Was "what is this chip)
Message-ID: <16602@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Apr 89 22:19:14 GMT
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Erik Greene Reminds me:
>
>ii article <16510@cup.portal.com>, A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert) says:
>$ In article <6460@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP writes:
>
[ tons of stuff deleted ]
>
>An 8080sux takes 4 clock cycles to read a byte from the bus. The 6502,
>65c02, etc. take 1 clock cycle. Thus a 8 mhz 6502 would be the
>equivalent of a 32mhz 8086-based machine. Considering that 80x6-based
>machines are having trouble getting RAM fast enough to run at 25mhz
>(they're going to static caches, interleaved DRAM, etc.), you begin to
>see the memory problems of an 8mhz 6502 (although because it can only
>address 64K of RAM, using fast SRAM is certainly a good option).
>
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Well slap my face! I done forgot about them there differences between the
65??? and ?80??? species of uP's!

All seriousness aside, though, I really did see adverts for 70ns DRAMS.
Are they no longer made?

J. DeBert
A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com

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