Re: Accelerating the CPU!

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Christopher J Lewandowski-pearson (lewandow@u.arizona.edu) wrote:
> How come you can buy accelerators for the commodore 64/128 computers,
> but nothing *new* exists for the apple ][s?  (I know about the ZIP
> chip, but there is a lot of cool stuff going on in the commodore
> world!)

I saw that killer external accelerator for the C64.  Since it's based on 
the 20MHz 816, that would rock if we could convince those guys to make a 
card version for the GS.  

For those who haven't seen it, it rocks.  It has EVERYTHING built in, 
pretty much completely bypassing the entire C64, giving it a 20MHz 816 
processor, 16-meg of RAM capability, etc.  and if I remember correctly, 
even has a custom version of GEOS designed to take advantage of the new 
hardware...  Now that's awesome!


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