Re: Popular Science

[Gabriel Morales <Togega@Yahoo.com>]

Ronald Clark wrote:
>
> I saw in Popular Science that they use a in the New computer a super cool
> the CPU down to -40 c and they can get a the cpu faster( saw it in the
> september 1998) I was wounder if we could use it on the GS to get it
> faster.
> will it work?

Joe Seeley wrote:
> 
> In any case the bottom line is that it isn't just the CPU that is the problem
> with the IIGS.  From what I gather it is pretty much everything about the
> motherboard that needs to be updated.  Including but not limited to: video,
> system RAM and SCSI.  By today's standards these all run at a turtle's pace.
> I was asking sometime back in January about a GS version of MAME and that is
> when I found out the details.

I write:

	Cooling the CPU/Motherboard might be more trouble than it's worth, at least
with the IIGS's original design. It would serve us much more if the IIGS were
completely redesigned, with a PowerPC or ARM processor and maybe then cooling
the CPU/Motherboard might speed it up, although both these chips have a
reputation for being very cool & efficient.

	Sometimes things have to be reinvented. Sometimes a particular technology is
no longer adequate for the task at hand. True, IIGS technology could have been
improved upon had it been continued, but that was a number of years ago, and I
don't believe the technology should be pushed to today's standards when there
are far more adequate & efficient alternatives.

	Although I doubt it, if anyone's up to the task of literally redesigning the
IIGS, I'd definitely support the effort and purchase such a machine were it to
work out. The problem is, frankly, I don't think anyone's both determined and
skilled enough to undertake such a project.

Gabriel Morales