[Coco] What happens if a slow 6809EP is used....

[Mike Pepe]

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> If it is used at double speed. Does it crash?

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>  George

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In theory, yes, but I have never seen one that does... think of how often the "speedup poke" was used in the CoCo 1 & 2 days; it runs the CPU at double speed during ROM access. Very few (if any) folks ever reported they were unable to do so.