Author: J. C. Boco
Date: 20:34:04 05/08/03
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On May 08, 2003 at 21:04:36, Zach Wegner wrote: >On May 08, 2003 at 20:57:52, J. C. Boco wrote: > >>What is the reason you can't replace the RISC processor on these things with >>some other, faster RISC that may be on the market? I would guess the >>connections to the motherboard would be different... > >RISC is a special CPU that has only instructions for the task it is designed to >use for. If you were to replace it with another RISC, it would have to have the >exact same instruction set. I presume each dedicated machine company has a >completely different CPU. This is interesting. There has been damaging comparisons made between a Palm running at 50MHz and the phantom Star Sapphire running at 16MHz. If the 16MHz RISC chip is optimized, then WRT strength could it be said to be running faster? Now I know that comparing the Palm CPU and a RISC chip is like apples and oranges, or apples and coffee cups, but if a very rough estimate could be made could you answer this question: What is the estimated MHz speed WRT a Palm of a 16MHz RISC processor?
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