ajp166 wrote:
>
> From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
>
> >the "vintage-PC" chipsets were 5 MHz parts, I do believe. That still
> wasn't
> >rocket-fast, but it was adequate for the 4.77 MHz i8088.
>
> Yes, and NEC and INTEL were selling 8mhz parts before then.
>
> The "PC" was slow by contemporary standards. I'd have likend it to
> building
> a 2mhz z80 system in 1981, equally poor thing to do.
>
> Allison
More like 1.2 MHZ 6502. But with the stupid pre-fetch buffer,
nobody knows how slow a instruction can be, they just give you the
best case.
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Received on Sun Dec 16 2001 - 16:40:39 GMT