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Re: Faster IIe

In article <sbeattie.797021174@stimpy.cs.iastate.edu>,
Shawn T Beattie <sbeattie@cs.iastate.edu> wrote:
> I have noticed that the 65C02 in my Apple IIe has the following
> printed on it:
> 
> G65SC02P-2
> 
> I assume that means it is a 2Mhz 65C02.  Is there any hardware
> modification that could me made to the motherboard that would 
> allow the 2 Mhz speed to be realized?

No.  The entire IIe is designed to operate at 1.024 MHz (or
thereabouts).  It is tightly bound to the requirements of the video
circuitry.

All versions of the IIe use a 2 MHz processor to improve the timing
within each CPU cycle (faster setup times, etc.) but the processor is
clocked at 1.024 MHz.
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David Empson
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