Re: TI-H: ti-turbo
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Why don't you just ask TI what capacitor C9 is for in the North American
TI-85s are for?
"Honors Master PhD of Idea Engineering"
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: From: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
: To: Zenon
: Subject: Re: TI-H: ti-turbo
: Date: October 22, 1996 5:50 PM
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: On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 07:34:05 EDT wesleymcgrew@juno.com (Robert W McGrew)
: writes:
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: >I can't see why not, if they all have the z80 processor, then TI put
: >something in to slow 'em all down.
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: This leads to the obvious question: Why did TI slow them down so much?
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: This is the way I see it (please, bear with me... =)
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: The Z80 is a chip that can run at almost any speed, assuming it doesn't
: get too hot or some other theoretical limit is reached. (Same as with
: the 80x86/Pentium Intel Chips). Now, from my experiences working with
: them whilst open, none of the chips ever got more than warm while doing
: intense calculations (A.k.a. Game Playing). Therefore, since the 85 runs
: at 6 Mhz (and to my knowledge, minimal thermal trouble...) why not have
: it automatically sped up to say, 18 Mhz? Surely TI would have noticed
: that normal graphing operations (Some o which take 10+ mins. including
: ZFit) would be sped up immensively...
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: Ok, I'm done. If I'm missing something (or if anyone actually
: understands what I'm trying to say...) let me know.
:
: - J. Bishop
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