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Re: AE Transwarp II

Sean Fahey wrote:


Instead of 3.6MHz, the TWII is 8MHz. It competed with the faster Zip/Rocket
Chips.


Also they operate on differeing principles.
 The TransWarp was almost a computer on a card. It had it's own RAM
to which it copied the ROM to for faster access and it used that RAM
in place of the motherboard RAM and the first 64k on an auxilary slot
card. This meant that it slowed down when using a larger card like the
RamWorks.

The TransWarp II was a caching acellerator. AE liscenced it from Bits &
Pieces, the makers of the Rocketchip. Bits & Pieces was in a court case
over the rights to that technology. Unfortunately they lost and AE was
ordered to stop sales. So the TransWarp II was basically a Zipchip or Rocketchip on a card instead of a chip. 

Wayne