Re: processor

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: processor
From: Alex Ingram <alex@GOOD1.DEMON.CO.UK>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 00:01:35 +0100
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In article <359D1E0B.4D49EB1@ameritech.net>, Tucker with e-mail address
Tucker <tucker1@ameritech.net>
 and posted at 18:08:14 on Fri, 3 Jul 1998
 wrote about processor
>>
>> TI-80: 980 kHz ProprietaryTI-81: 2 MHz Z80
>> TI-73/82/83/85/86: 6MHz Z80
>> TI-89/92: 10 MHz MC68000
>>
>Just in case you wanted to know, the Z80 was used in arcade machines in
>the days of Pong, and the MC68000 was for early Macintosh's and the
>Commodore Amiga. It's strange that calculators these days have as much
>power as full computers 15 years ago..

But they don't!

The Amiga had custom chips - Zorro Busses and the like, sophisticated
audio and graphics chips and this out of the box, You'll find that
TI89/92 is still slower than Amiga on similar chip, though the TI OS
should hopefully use less than about 20k to run (which is what original
amiga's could do!).
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