Re: NTLK New StrongARM processor

From: Robert Benschop (robertbenschop@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 16:30:19 CDT


on 26-08-2000 11:17, Bill Davis at newton@ecity.net wrote:

> The OTHER circuitry may not be able to handle the higher speeds. The
> flash RAM in the Newton may also be a limiting factor in how much speedup
> you'd actually see, too. I'm not a hardware guy, but I do know the
> speeds all have to sync up, and can cause bottlenecks so that if some of
> the components aren't fast enough, all the additional processor speed in
> the world won't help past a certain point.

Which is what I always thought as well, was just wondering why the Newton
doesn't have a problem with the 220 MHz from PixSolution, but that might be
the max of course :-(
BTW, I doubt that we have anybody with knowledge about these kind of
hardware limitations on this list, as I wonder if there's still anybody
anywhere that would know for sure.

Robert Benschop

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