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From: jonh@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: fast clock for 6809
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Date: 4 May 89 23:06:33 GMT
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Reply-To: jonh@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
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>> >version available? We ran that chip at 3 mhz wihtout any
>> >problem. But I don't know the long-term effect to the
>> >system. Does anyone have such experience on this?
>> 
>> I think it's safe for the processor to do this (you have to go quite fast for
>
>Whoa! hold the phone!
>
>  Notice that I have never tried the above, I only think it would be neat
>to try.  In college someone once boasted that they took a SWTP 6800 machine
>up to 12 Mhz before it quit.  The first part to die was a 6850 ACIA.
>
>OS-9 on a 6 Mhz 6809 system would be awsome. :>

Whoa! hold the fax! :-)

Just imagine--take one of those Intel 386s and pump it up a tad--we could
use FM bands as modem channels--without an FM tuner! :-)  "Yeeeep, I got
a little ol' 300MHz board.." :-)  And then, in the history books: "The
first computers occupied a room and had to be kept cool with expensive
air conditioners.  Later computers ran at room tempurature in thumbnail
size boxes.  Today, four hundred of yesterday's computers would fit on
the head of a pin, but each one has a heat sink roughly the size of a 747."

   (-:  Just a humorous little interlude. :-)

		--Jon
-- 
jonh@tekgen.bv.tek.com     (503) MAK-SEMA  Jon Howell | Q: How come they never
  //  //  //  _  __    _   .  .   . .    ___   .  _   | play that on the radio?
 //  //  //  / \(_ __ (_)  |\/|  /| |\ |  |   /| /    | A: They should.
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