Re: Speeding up the old IIs (not the GS)

[nyder <nyder.23@gmail.com>]

On Aug 12, 4:27 pm, wyeo <willie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or ... a 200MHz Apple //e ??
>
> From the WDC webpage:
> The legendary 65xx brand microprocessors with both 8-bit and 8/16-bit
> ISA’s keep cranking out the unit volumes in ASIC and standard
> microcontroller forms supplied by WDC and WDC’s licensees. Annual
> volumes in the hundreds (100’s) of millions of units keep adding in a
> significant way to the estimated shipped volumes of five (5) to ten
> (10) billion units. With 200MHz+ 8-bit W65C02S and 100MHz+ 8/16-bit
> W65C816S processors coming on line in ASIC and FPGA forms, we see
> these annual volumes continuing for a long, long time.

I always wondered how those accels you put in the cpu sockets
worked.   Like if you could use one for another computer system in a
different system.  (ie. mac 040 accel in an amiga).   I figure it
needs some drivers, but wondered how much is machines specific.