[sdiy] Radfio Shack

James Patchell patchell at cox.net
Sat Oct 23 04:55:19 CEST 2004


Oh heck no...I did this a Looonnnggg time ago with a pair of 6514's...works 
great....however, with the much faster technologies we have....maybe no 
longer nessesary.

It was hard to debug, however... :-)

At 08:11 PM 10/22/2004 -0400, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>On Friday 22 October 2004 02:22 pm, Rainer Buchty wrote:
> > >and a great many 6502s and 6510s.  I've been thinking about the latter
> > >in particular lately because it can be done so simply.
> >
> > The neat thing about 6502/6510 (or 6809E for that matter) is that you
> > just take two, clock them 180° out of phase, route each of them to the
> > common bus during PHI2=1, and instantly get a dual-processor system.
>
>Yeah,  but that's *way* too closely coupled for comfort for a lot of uses...
>
>I suppose that would be useful,  if you had need of two chips running the 
>same
>code,  and if it were fairly re-entrant.  It would require some care.  And
>with the amount of junk I have around it's not a big deal to me at this point
>to just have another eprom and ram chip in there if I need them.
>
>Are there particular advantages to this approach that I'm not seeing?

         -Jim
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