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From: oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Stuff
Keywords: IIgs+?
Message-ID: <167@thelink.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 00:40:53 GMT
Organization: TheLink-Public Access Unix, South Bend, IN.
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>And the IIGS without a 3.5" disk is like a peanut butter sandwich without
>the jelly.

Naahhh... More like a peanut butter sandwich without the bread...:)

One question for all..

Some people have said that they are anxious for the 65832 chip to come so
they can put it in a new IIgs... I have one technical question.. The 65816 is
an 8/16 bit chip.. 16 bits on the inside and 8 bits to the rest of the
computer... Since the 65832 is supposed to be pin-compatible with the 65816,
then it will make that chip an 8/32 bit processor... How much of a speed
increase is it if the chip can't talk to the rest of the machine?  Drive
access time will still be sad while the machine slows down to 1mhz for drive
access.  It sounds like Apple is trying to shoehorn a Ferrari engine in a 
VW Beetle.  The engine has to be cut down so it can fit in the engine
compartment (the 65832 having 8 bit data in and out of the chip).  The
handling will be bad because the engine overpowers the car..(well, no analogy
for this but you get the point).

If Apple insists on having 8-bit/16-bit downward compatability, is there any
way to expand the data lines to the rest of the machine up to 32 data paths..
It seems that you can't just keep putting faster processors into a machine
and expect it to keep up with the big boys (if that is even what Apple wants
it to do).

I am not really knowledgeable on any of this stuff or on chip design but this
is how I see it from my ground floor view... Can you please prove me wrong
and point out something that I missed?  (Will RAM access suffer from lack of
16 bit data paths or does RAM always get addressed 8 bits at a time anyway?)

 
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