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Re: Thoughts on 8-bit acceleration.

sfahey wrote:

  To: mdj
  Re: Re: Thoughts on 8-bit acceleration.
  By: mdj to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu May 06 2010 01:02 am

 > card. Even with all that it's still vastly inferior to the Zip design.

Interesting, and I'm not disputing your analysis but I'll add that card-based
accelerators seem to be more reliable than Zip Chips. With their fragile pins,
internal cache failures (and a few other issues) they are hardly a panacea.


Innovative packaging has its pitfalls, but if you plug it in and leave
it alone (and you don't have one of the "flaky" batch), they are as
reliable as the original processor.


Tony suggested to me that the ZipGS might be able to work in a //e, because it
lacks the voo-doo the TWGS has onboard. It would just take some tweaking of the
ASIC possibly.

What do you think of that?


An interesting experiment.  ;-)

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