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A3000 Slower

    01-Oct-90 16:27:49
Sb: #1346-A3000 Slower
Fm: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
To: Richard Mataka 72317,1761
Several C= engineers have said there's no practical way to get a 3000 working at the same speed as a stock 500/1000/2000. Beyond the clock speed there are other problems (like the fact that memory accesses are 32-bits at a time) that make it very difficult to get the speeds to really be close. Kludges such as running a CPU-hogging program inthe background have been suggested, but that'll only get you a very rough approximation of the necessary speed. The most realistic solution is to wait for the software developers to rev their games to work on a 3000, or to buy a 500 for game playing. -Mike