Re: TI-H: ti-turbo
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Well, yeah. Without the turbo, the calc's running at 6MHz. Turboing it
will make it faster because you're calculating at 6 million cycles a second
on the calc normally. I dunno what the chip can run, but that's what the
calc's running. You jack it up with a turbo like mine (4.87x faster) and
you get this 30MHz calc, faster than a 386 but still can't take the
sophistication of a 386. It's just the amount of information it can
process a second.
"This is the most logical route, Captain"
-= Zenon@bbs.nexes.com =-
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: From: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
: To: Zenon
: Subject: Re: TI-H: ti-turbo
: Date: November 1, 1996 1:20 PM
:
:
: C.J. Oster wrote:
: >
: > >Then why does it say 6MHz on ti.calc.org
: > >-don't mean to be an ass, just wondering....
: >
: > The Z80 is a 6Mhz chip, but there is a speed limiting capacitor on the
: > processor that slows it down to 1Mhz.
: >
: > -C.J.-
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: The top speed is not 6 mhz. That is what ti put it at so it doesn't blow
: up or smoke. When you turbo it, the c9 capacitor is taken out, which
: allows the processor to be run at a faster speed (18-20 i think), you
: could probably run it even faster somehow, but your calc would probably
: melt because of the heat. :( That's not what TI had in mind.
:
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