Re: What's the IIe's--Arghh!--MHz Speed?

["DJ Herison" <djh@itol.com>]

Teh //gs can go up to 12 Mhz due to the fact that there are 12 Mhz
65816 chips out there (the 16 bit version of the 6502).

dj


<mairsil@my-dejanews.com> wrote in message 77sp9h$fpd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com...
>In article <77sgr7$9lv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>  kaimbridge@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>  Alright, I'll ask what has probably already been asked 10^1000 time:  What is
>> the Mhz processor speed of a regular, 128K, 80-column Apple IIe?
>>  Given that the "popular" "fast" PCs are around 200 MHz these days--which
>> would be quite a feat, just a few years ago--I'm guessing about maybe 2,3 or
>> possibly 5 (10?) MHz?
>
>A stock //e has a speed of 1 MHz, while a //GS has 2 MHz and a //c+ has a
>whopping 4MHz. I've seen posts of people who've been able to speed up their
>Apple //'s to 12 MHz, but they're mostly //GS's. Personally, though, I feel
>the "need for speed" unnecessary in an 8 bit computer. Most of the time the
>extra speed is for fancy graphics, anyway.
>
>
>
>Ralph Glatt
>
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