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

[Mike Pepe]

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> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of George Ramsower
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 7:30 PM
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> Subject: [Coco] What happens if a slow 6809EP is used....
> 
> If it is used at double speed. Does it crash?
> 
> 
>  George
> 

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.