Ethan Dicks wrote: > I think the 8520 can be hooked to a faster bus (it's used in the Amiga, after > all). The TOD clocks are binary timers. There may be some other subtle > differences of which I am unaware. Actually the Amiga bus is slower than the C64 bus, it runs only at about 800kHz (1/10 of the processor clock). Note that this is the E Bus as it is called, this is the slow bus on the 68000 for old 6800 bus compatible devices. This is why not all 8520 from an Amiga can be used in the 1570/71/81: they all need 2MHz components. Nicolas - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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