Re: Western design chip

[toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:

>The IIGS slows down to 1 MHz very often, lowering its effective speed.

Yeah, but not by as much as most people think. Only the actual data transfers
are slow, and most of the time is spent reading instructions and loading
direct page pointers. Plus there is the bus controller handling the last byte
written in the background, so even if that's at 1 mhz you won't wait for all
of it.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu