Re: Lightning Fast GS's

[philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

Chantha Lueung asks:

>What keeps the II GS from running at high speed in stock form?  Is there a
>bottle neck?

  Well, as the accelerator boards and chips have proven, the GS could have
been allowed to run at 10 Mhz, 16 Mhz, or even higher.  However, all I/O on
the GS has been designed to run at 1 Mhz, so as to be compatible with
previous Apple // models.  This was a delibrate design decision, though an
unfortunate one.  It would have been nice if the I/O (or some of it) could
have been designed to run at higher speeds--the super hires screen would have
benefitted from that, for instance.  But alas, it was never to be.

>And has anyone heard anything about the 65832's?

  Presumably it's still on the cards, but yet to be released.  I could be
wrong, though.

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