Re: Western design chip

[aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

In a previous article, unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) says:

>In article <1jv04uINNn1t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 
(Jason Reames) writes:
>>I read in the Feb. issue of A+/InCider that Western Design has a chip for the
>>GS, the W65C81PL-E, that will double the speed of the GS.  Is this on the
>>level?  Anyone have one that can confirm it really works?  How about the
>>cost?  Thanks!!
>
>More details please...  How would this theoretically double the speed of 
>the GS?  cut cycle counts of instructions in half? has an online cache??

Um, I think the original message (and the magazine article) are referring to
the 14MHz chip reengineered by Sanyo, and announced last fall. The horrors
of the three-month lead time...B-)

The "double the speed" sounds a bit misleading...I suppose it will double
the speed of a TWGS, if you're lucky to have a stable one.

To those who don't know: Installing a faster CPU will only help you if you
have an accelerator board, and then only if you upgrade the oscillator
crystal (to 4x the CPU speed) and the cache SRAM, at the same time. Here
we go again with this discussion...ah well...
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