On Fri, 10 Feb 1995 10:59:14 +0000 (GMT), Nigel J Kettlewell said: > This is true of just about any processor, though - accessing memory is > the slowest thing it can possibly do (barring floating point, perhaps)
True. However, in this case the ASIC makes the problem worse by limiting access to one every 4 6MHz cycles even though the Z80 can manage one every 3 cycles (which is I think still five times as long as the RAM's access time). imc
