Re: Super GS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Bill Heineman <burger@contrabandent.com> wrote:

>Now, fast forward to today. All major CPU's contain L1 (Even better) and L2
>caches right in the chip. All you need to do is tell in software what areas
>of the computer you don't want this feature enabled. So the hardware to
>graft a StrongARM or PowerPC into a IIgs is trivial compared to making a
>ZipGS. The only real challenge is writing the 65816 emulator to match cycle
>times to allow things like the disk drive to operate.

AMD K6-2.  64k of L1 cache.  You have to provide the L2 cache, but
for this application I think it is a small price to pay for a CPU you
can get at 333Mhz for $30.