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Article #3204Re: System clock rate vs. memory chip speed.
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 19:32
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 19:32
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In article <8747@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >In the old days (long ago, when things were 8 bit) we used to stretch the >CPU clocks to add wait states, at least in 6502 systems. On the 6502, one >bus clock == one CPU clock, and so wait states were expensive if you >really waited one whole CPU clock. The old days weren't so long ago. The Sun 3/180 (also 160 and 75, which used the same CPU board) did the same thing with the 68020, so they could run with 1.5 wait states instead of 2. -- That's not a joke, that's | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology NASA. -Nick Szabo | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: System clock rate vs. memory chip speed. Message-ID: <1989Nov29.193200.7167@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Nov28.222102.12113@agate.berkeley.edu> <8747@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 89 19:32:00 GMT