Re: A85: Daedulus

To: <assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A85: Daedulus
From: "David G Taylor" <davey79@prodigy.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:22:23 -0400
Reply-To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org

>>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.


Actually, Andi was talking about the GameBoy's 4,000,000 clock cycles/s,
against the 6 mil for the TI-85.. But, I did learn something too :)

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