[Coco] What about the double speed upgrade?

Richard E. Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Fri Jan 5 16:02:14 EST 2007


On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:58, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> SPeed compatibility issues will exist with either processor when doing
> anything outside the processor. All the existing peripheral devices would
> have to be of equal speed grade with the E clock.

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That was the same problem the Amiga guys ran into when they tried to 
accelerate the Amiga beyond 7mhz. The supportring chips would not tolerate 
being sped up, so everything had to go around them and only bring them in at 
the correct moment.



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