Re: Accelerator //e

[Jonathan Schattke <wizwom@ripco.com>]

Supertimer wrote:
> I think you and Scott are missing each others' points.  You
> are saying that a 486 is a faster processor than the 65816.

Unless there was a strange modificatio to the chipsets since the
mid-80s, an 8Mhz 65x should perform as fast as a 25Mhz 16-bit Intel
processor, sheerly in terms of bus speed. (both would transfer
16MB/sec).  The 65816 has the same internal math that a 286 has.  So the
chip that would be the "same" as a 65816-8 is the 286-25. 
Coincidentally, both were released at about the same time.
Both chips maintain back-compatability to 8 bit processors.

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