Re: Zip GS questions

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <32AA91D6.1857@unixg.ubc.ca>, benlai@unixg.ubc.ca wrote:

> As a new IIgs owner, I am a little bit confused about the Zip
> accelerator for the IIgs..
> 
> At EGO System, they are selling a "ZipGS 8/16 accelerator", what does
> the 8 and the 16 stands for?  They claimed that the chips runs at 8 mhz,
> so I assume the 8 stands for megahertz, and the 16 stands for cache
> pershaps?

Yes.

> Yet, at Alltech they are selling 7mhz Zip Chips for a lot cheaper than
> the ones by EGO System ($140 versus $175), what is the difference
> between the two?  

Zip chip or Zip card? A Zip chip is for IIe's. The GS accelerator is
a card.

I have never had the opportunity to compare differently zipped
GSes, so I don't speak from personal experience, but I think I would
rather have another 16kb of cache than another 1Mhz speed. That's why
I bought a Zip 7/32 card a few years back for my GS. Of course, having
both the cache and the clock is nice too...

-Sheldon

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