Re: 6502 Programming Is Not Interested?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3F35CDBC.6050202@noneofyourbusiness.com>,
Exegete  <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> 
>> What a crock of utter bullshit.   You realize that there were people who
>> said the same thing about the "new" 6502 - "I can do that in 1K at 1/500th
>> the clockspeed". 
> 
> The first 6502 machines only had 2-4K, standard. Did the 4004 run at 
> 2khz? I really rather doubt that.
 
The 4004 ran at around 100 kHz clock speed.
 
Otoh the Mark I and Mark II (mechanical relay computers which predated
the ENIAC) ran at a "clock speed" of only perhaps 5-10 Hz or so --- the
relays couldn't work faster than that....
 
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