CompuServe Thread

Speed

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#537From: Bela Lubkin/SysopDec 5, 1985 6:51 AM
Ok, found my brochure. It's Computer System Associates, 7564 Trade St., San Diego, CA 92121, (619) 566-3911. The board is a generic 68000 replacement; however, I'm pretty sure the software to be run must conform with 68020 restrictions, such as not doing stupid things with RTE. Thus it won't do any good in a current Mac or ST, but it works great in the Amiga! The board runs at the system clock speed of 7.1X MHZ. It's actually rated up to 16 MHZ, but the Amiga won't support it at that rate. I imagine some creative hacking could get it running at the crystal rate of 14.3X MHZ, but it would have a lot of trouble getting memory access at that speed. Nevertheless, with 256K RAM onboard cache, that might not be much of a problem. Question for you hardware hackers: the crystal does run at 14.3X MHZ, doesn't it? It's divided down for the CPU, right? Just think of a 14MHZ 68020 instead of a 7MHZ 68000. 4:1 or 5:1 improvement right there! – Bela