Re: Advant/Disad of Zip8MHz

[bazyar@hypermall.hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

Joseph Turner (jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
:    Hi, I amy be getting myself a zip 8MHz for my 2c with z-ram, I am just 
: wondering what the advantages are and disadvantages. One question I do 
: have in mind is, will my programs be 8 times faster? 

  Not quite, but close to it.  Because the 8MHz Zip is a caching
system, sometimes the machine will be running at the slow 1MHz
to do I/O or fill the cache with data from slow memory.

:   Also, I have a friend who used to have an apple and he got a few Zip 
: Chips but he told me that he had a problem with them blowing up. Is this 
: a real problem in most situations?

  I've never heard of that. We have Zip Chips in our IIe's at Sequential
and they work great.

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