Re: Accelerator Update

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fhc wrote:

> Huge progress was made today.  The project has aquired some financial
> backing from an investment firm.  The project has to date delivered very
> promising designs capable of pushing the limits of IIgs hardware.  The
> bus of the IIgs will be sped up to 2Mhz from 1Mhz.  This doubling of the
> system bus will allow faster access times, video that can drive VGA
> (30Khz instead of 15Khz), faster serial ports and faster disk access.
>
> The accelerator itself will sport 2Megs of static RAM to act as cache,
> 64Megs of SDRAM, disk on chip, and the ability to use multiple
> processors from the 8088 all the way up to the Intel Celeron.  There are
> some technical problems with the bus and will not be able to support
> Pentium IIIs or AMD's Athlon.  Heat dissipation could cause problems so
> a 20lb heatsink is being designed by a sub contractor.

This is AWESOME news! Way to go, man! (BTW, is the heat sink itself really
20 pounds?)

---Tarage