Re: A85: Daedulus
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Re: A85: Daedulus
Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
>
> At 04:51 PM 9/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Ess Andreas wrote:
> >>
> >> NO! 4 mHz instead of 6. We have a special system to have it at about the
> same speed > like the 85 one.
> >
> >Um, the Ti-85 is actually ~1Mhz, even though it is 'rated' at 6Mhz (I
> >still don't know what that means).
>
> Oh boy, I get to be the teacher and BOTH of you get to learn something! :)
> The chip IS RATED at 6Mhz. The reason for this is due to the fact that the
> chip has 6,000,000 clock cycles per second. Think about it. Your
> computer's CPU is doing something like 133Mhz or 133,000,000 clock cycles
> per second. There is no difference in the measurements of speed for either
> a PC or a hand-held graphing calculator.
wtf? It is about ONE MEGAHERTZ. I know what that means, cycles per
second, I don't know what 'rated' means exactly. But all the faqs and
people I've talked to say that it is about one megahertz before
acceleration, around 3-4 megahertz after acceleration.
It has something to to do with the fact that ti intentionally slowed
down the proccessor to save on battery drain.
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Terry Peng <tpeng@geocities.com>
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