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01mbmccabe wrote in a message on 20 Jan 93 to All

> A side point to...the Falcon only has a 16 bit bus to the CPU, the DSP
gets > it's chunks on a 32-bit bus, and the Video system is primed to grab
memory > 64-bits at a time.  So it's not "just a 16-bit bus".

 0>  So what does this mean (theoretically) about the speed of 
 0> a Falcon 030 compared to the relative speed of of a Mac IIci 
 0> -- or whichever Mac was cited as bieing 'crippled' with a 16bit 
 0> bus like the Falcon 030? 

That's the LC and LC II. The video system in the Falcon gets its data in
32-bit chunks, not 64-bit (that's the TT). While video access is going on,
the CPU can't use the bus; but, in the LC and LC II, there is a separate
video RAM, which means that they don't suffer from waiting for the video
the finish with the bus. On the whole, I am afraid this tips the balance
slightly in favor of the Macs.


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