Re: Rocket Chip Info

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jay wrote:

>The AE TransWarp II uses the RocketChip Technology to run about 8MHz or so.
>I love it!  Turn off the TransWarp startup graphics and watch folks jaws drop
as
>the //e zooms through programs with screen refreshes that put modern laptops
>to shame.

But let's not forget that "RocketChip technology" is really Zipchip technology,
which was pioneered as McT SpeedDemon technology.

The founders of Zip Technologies Inc. were the people who designed the
SpeedDemon card, who had the further idea of reducing it all to a multi-
chip carrier that plugged into the processor socket.

RocketChip was formed by former Zip employees who left to duplicate
the Zip work under another name.

When Apple decided to license a cache-based acceleration technology
for the IIc+, the only real contender was Zip, since they had clear title
to the technology--as its creator, not as a licensee.

-michael

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