PolyModular Standards

Johan Gustavsson moxie at idonex.se
Fri May 7 17:11:08 CEST 1999


>     A 6502 running at 1 MHz is not ridiculously slow.  First of all
> the code is more efficient.

Nope, I know. You're not reading properly. Let me qoute part of your
own quoting:

> >  Usually, we'd express processor speed in MHz (megahertz), but a
> > processor running at 1 mHz (millihertz) would truly be ridiculously
> > slow...:-)

So, a 1 MHz 6502 is quite OK, however, a 1 mHz 6502 (that would
process one instruction every millionth second, or roughly 1 every
eleventh day) would be silly. Better watch those prefixes! :-)
/Moxie (Case sensitive)




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