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Did 10Mhz RAM exist in 1990?
Did 10Mhz RAM exist in 1990?
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Aug 12, 2012 at 9:34:34 PM
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Did 10Mhz RAM exist in 1990?
Aug 12, 2012 at 9:48:35 PM
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It did I am sure, although it'd of still been a bit more expensive and probably not very big. Those early 486 PCB's have like..15ns 8KB RAMS?
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Aug 12, 2012 at 10:00:40 PM
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Isn't 15ns the same as 66 Mhz?, because that sounds really fast for something from the late 80s and early 90s.
Aug 12, 2012 at 10:38:32 PM
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Yes, Cray designed machines were ~30MHz in the early 1970s. Or did you mean in a machine that didn't cost millions?
Aug 14, 2012 at 12:15:30 PM
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I'm asking this question because I always found it strange that Nintendo chose 5Mhz VRAM for the SNES's PPU. If they used 10Mhz VRAM instead, they wouldn't have needed 8 different background modes.
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