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Re: 65c816 speeds

Subject: Re: 65c816 speeds
From: nugundam@netcom.com (Joseph Lee)
Date: 1996/09/07
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Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: acceleration. That's one of the main reasons why a 2-4MB (2MB code
: ram, more dedicated to sound/video) SEGA Saturn of Sony Playstation
: running at 2x28Mhz or 1x33Mhz can pull off games that Pentium 166s
: and nice video boards can't.]

Kinda funny that previously, the graphics chips were faster than the cpus.
Now it's the opposite.  The CPUs are crunching stuff faster than the GPUs
can spit them out.  Guess it's all those polygons and effects...
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References:
- 65c816 speeds
  - From: John Le Febvre <John@klatch.demon.co.uk>
- Re: 65c816 speeds
  - From: nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)

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