Re: Flame-o-Rama! (was Re: ZipGS 12MHz on ROM

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <1994Apr28.044323.27386@labtam.labtam.oz.au> philip@labtam.oz.au writ
es:
>  You obviously don't realise that due to the pipelined design of the 65816,
>it is capable of executing instructions up to 4 times faster than other CISC
>processors at the same Mhz rating.  So 12 Mhz is not pathetic at all...it is
>in fact roughly equivilant to a 40 Mhz PC!  That's nothing to complain about.

What are you talking about?  I was not aware that the 65816 has an instruction
pipeline of any considerable length.  For what it's worth, though,
a 40 MHz 68040 would probably eat a 12 MHz 65816 for lunch (not that it
means anything).

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)