Re: 20MHz 65C816 (IIGS CPU) in production: used in C= accelerator

[sbehrens@arrowweb.com (S�nke Behrens)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <19961214193500.OAA01702@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> <rubywand@aol.com> wrote:
>>     True enough. The cure is not especially complicated. What we need is
>>a 20MHz New GS plug-in "accelerator card" which includes 32MB of main RAM
>>and 4MB of FlashRAM 'System ROM'.
>
>   Given that the 65816 can address 16MB of memory total, this is a
>waste.

Hey, folks, look: An understatement by our own Nathan "Evil Fiend"
Mates. So nobody slag off Nathan any more for flaming all the time.
Actually, I'd like to second his notion. Ahem (clears throat, climbs
soapbox):

32MB? Get real, kid! 8MB RAM is what the GS architecture supports, and
you obviously have no clue about it. Oh, so you want an MMU on there,
too? Way cool, if completely silly and misguided. A bigger stack'd be
more useful than an amount of RAM you could drown even Microsoft's
code bloat in.
As for the 4MB FlashRAM: To be filled with what? You wanna put
pictures of the developers' cocks in there or what? 4MB ... sheesh.
Looked at FlashRAM prices recently?

(Steps off soapbox) Anyway, what the heck. It's not even worth
responding to, that is, it's such a hapless idea.

Soenke Behrens

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