Re: Will this blow my processor?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3e5hm8$evp@hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
Jason Jeffries <JJeffries@psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Well, about half an hour after I posted the origional article, my GS
> began crashing while loading GS/OS (it's scary to see the message
> "Please insert the disk /HD1"!) so I tried slowing it down... no good.
> It STILL crashed, at any speed. I'm thinking the Zip does something
> strange to apparently slow the processor down from maximum speed.

Yes.  I'm pretty sure that it always runs the on-board CPU at the
maximum accelerated speed, and uses some method such as the RDY signal
or stealing the bus to limit the processor to a lower effective speed.
-- 
David Empson
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