A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert) (04/03/89)
Erik Greene Reminds me: > >ii article <16510@cup.portal.com>, A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert) says: >$ In article <6460@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP writes: > [ tons of stuff deleted ] > >An 8080sux takes 4 clock cycles to read a byte from the bus. The 6502, >65c02, etc. take 1 clock cycle. Thus a 8 mhz 6502 would be the >equivalent of a 32mhz 8086-based machine. Considering that 80x6-based >machines are having trouble getting RAM fast enough to run at 25mhz >(they're going to static caches, interleaved DRAM, etc.), you begin to >see the memory problems of an 8mhz 6502 (although because it can only >address 64K of RAM, using fast SRAM is certainly a good option). > >-- >| // Eric Lee Green P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 | >| // ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg (318)989-9849 | > \X/ Amiga. The homestation for the blessed of us. | Well slap my face! I done forgot about them there differences between the 65??? and ?80??? species of uP's! All seriousness aside, though, I really did see adverts for 70ns DRAMS. Are they no longer made? J. DeBert A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com "...anything you say can and will offend someone, somewhere, sometime." (Lazarus Long)