Re: Apple //c+ questions....

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indizgize@aol.comXYZZY (InDizgize) wrote:

>>This is a 4MHz 65C02. Different chip vendors had different ways of marking
>>the chips. FYI, my IIc+ has the same VLSI chip.
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>>pschultz@med.wayne.edu
>>Paul Schultz
>
>   Thanks for the confimation on that Paul..   I'm still at a loss for the
lack
>of speed though..   When my //gs can list the same BASIC program faster than
>the //c+ there's gotta be something wrong....

Hi Diz, the lack of video display speed (menus popping down, etc.)
can be due to the caching of the IIc+ back and forth from the 8k
static RAM cache.  The IIGS does not have to do this, so it is faster
(for video).  The IIc+ speed comes in internal computations using
the data already in the 8k cache.

One way to confirm the IIc+ high speed is a simple BASIC program.

10 ? "Start"
20 FOR I=1 to 10000
30 NEXT I
40 ? "Stop"

Run this program in both the high and normal IIc+ speeds and use
a stopwatch to time how long it takes from Start to Stop in both speeds.
The high IIc+ speed should beat the normal IIc+ speed by a lot.

Good luck!