Re: Accelerator Update

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <38E68F4C.49E16102@srv.net>, fhc <frankc@srv.net> writes:
>Huge progress was made today.  The project has aquired some financial
>backing from an investment firm.  The project has to date delivered very
>promising designs capable of pushing the limits of IIgs hardware.  The
>bus of the IIgs will be sped up to 2Mhz from 1Mhz.  This doubling of the
>system bus will allow faster access times, video that can drive VGA
>(30Khz instead of 15Khz), faster serial ports and faster disk access.

Wow, that's incredible! I wonder who would have backing this project?
Let this date be noted in the history books, April 1st 2000 as the day
we get to see some new corporate investment into the GS.

>The accelerator itself will sport 2Megs of static RAM to act as cache,
>64Megs of SDRAM, disk on chip, and the ability to use multiple
>processors from the 8088 all the way up to the Intel Celeron.  There are
>some technical problems with the bus and will not be able to support
>Pentium IIIs or AMD's Athlon.  Heat dissipation could cause problems so
>a 20lb heatsink is being designed by a sub contractor.

Well one could look into incorporating one of those refridgerated cases...

>The cost of each accelerator is estimated at $1000 a piece, but as
>demand increases price will decrease.  This has been an Accelerator
>project update.

$1K only? What a steal! Too bad it's only good for today.