Re: Why/how does Zip 6502 work?

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4v0a6t$ns0@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

>   How you can run at higher speeds with a faster processor is by
>having some amount of ram that doesn't take a 1Mhz Clock Cycle to read
>in a byte.  I believe the Transwarp //e had 128K on it that it could
>access quickly. Replicating 100% of the memory at a fast speed is usually
>expensive when most programs tend to have a central core that's run
>all the time, and other things aren't accessed very often at all.

256k.  A neat little card indeed.  :)

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>Nathan Mates
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