[Coco] What about the double speed upgrade?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

PCs have gone beyond just clock multiplying alone. AMD/Intel with their more 
modern processors now have two busses. One to access ram and slower 
peripheral and the other bus to communicate with the rest of the chipset,  ie 
graphic controller.

james

On 6 Jan 2007 at 0:17, Diego Barizo wrote:

> I might be wrong, but... Isn't that the same that PCs do?
> A 400 MHz CPU and the bus at 100 MHz...
> If so, does it have the same implications for any computer? 2 times
> the CPU speed, same bus, just a 30% real speed increase?
> 
> Diego
> 
> 
> Richard E. Crislip wrote:
> > 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.
> >>     
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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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