[comp.sys.tandy] Tandy 6000 CPU clock speed?

bill@aimt.UUCP (Bill Dana) (03/09/88)

Anybody know what the clock speed of the 68000 on the
Tandy 6000?  I would REALLY appreciate it if you could
let me know if you do.  I have not been able to find
anybody with this info.  That being an older machine...

Thanks in advance.


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daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) (03/10/88)

In article <667@aimt.UUCP> bill@aimt.UUCP (Bill Dana) writes:
>Anybody know what the clock speed of the 68000 on the
>Tandy 6000?  I would REALLY appreciate it if you could
>let me know if you do.  I have not been able to find
>anybody with this info.  That being an older machine...

I'm not sure what it buys you, but it's 8MHz.
The older Model 16 ran at 6MHz.

In both of them the z80 runs at 4Mhz, and since it's the I/O
controller, you hit a bottleneck here. I don't know the timings
of the rest of the system (semi MMU, bus, memory access), but
if you need more info, check with Tandy for the Technical
Reference Manual for the 6000. I have a copy and will look up
info you may wish to know if you drop me a line.
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