Posted March 14, 2011
Phc7006: the 1982 Commodore 64 was powered by a MOS 6510 @ 1Mhz
the 1987 Amiga 500 was powered by a Motorola 68000 @ 7 Mhz
My first PC, in 1987 too, achieved a mere 8 Mhz
And you can find on GOG some games ( Red Baron I for instance ) that were in initially intended to play on 12.5 Mhz 80286s...
Yeah it wasn't the speed of the clock it was what you did with each clock cycle... the 1987 Amiga 500 was powered by a Motorola 68000 @ 7 Mhz
My first PC, in 1987 too, achieved a mere 8 Mhz
And you can find on GOG some games ( Red Baron I for instance ) that were in initially intended to play on 12.5 Mhz 80286s...
I spent 10 years with one of the 2Mhz systems as a kid an only ever recall it being slow when we had to load 1 game off tape, the rest were of floppy.
It wasn't until we got our first 20Mhz 386sx that I even realised clock speed meant anything. **sigh** memories lol