Re: Replacing the 6502 with a faster chip

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <AztVc.3021$7K1.2037@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>,
Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@nospam.net> wrote in message news:7zsVc.1605
>> > The Zip Chip can be found at up to 8 mhz. However, even the 4 mhz
>> > version is rather rare, and never cheap.
>
>> But don't forget the RocketChip and RocketChip II with speeds up to 10 MHz
>
>...though they were inferior.

How?  I had a 10-MHz RocketChip years ago, and I never had any performance
or compatibility problems with it.  If anything, I recall that it handled
some things better than a ZipChip in some respects.

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