Date   : Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:00:47 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: 1MHZ SCSI/ATA board.

"David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...> wrote:
> force up to 6MHz with a heatsink... Didn't the 8085 suffer from the same
> problems as the Z80 regarding cycles per instruction, I vaguely remember the
 
You mean the "problem" that *all* CPUs have, that the system clock
must cycle a certain number of times to perform any actions?
 
> NOP being 4 cycles vs. 2 cycles on the 6502. So even doing nothing it's half
> the performance.
 
Two cycles at 2MHz, four cycles at 4MHz. Who's counting?
 
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