[Coco] Is the 6309 worth it?

[Frank Pittel]

At the last cocofest I purchased a 6309 cpu for my coco3. Unfortunatly I
didn't think to time my coco3 with a 6809 in it. I do know that my coco3
with 6309 in it running the 6309 version of nitros-9 is noticably faster
then the same machine running the 6809 version of nitos-9. I haven't noticed
any significant speed differances between the two cpus when running hdb dos
ot rsdos.

To be fair the applications that I use under hdb-dos and rsdos weren't
optimized to take advantage of the 6809. All said I would consider upgrading
from a 6809 to a 6309 a no brainer.

Frank

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:07:50PM +0000, Leon Howell wrote:
> I've heard the 6309 only makes the CoCo 15% faster. I've heard it makes some 
> things up to 10 times as fast. What does it make 10 times as fast, and would I 
> really notice the improvement? I've heard NitrOS-9/6309 is about twice as 
> fast, but I have NitrOS-9/6809, and it seems at least twice as fast as OS-9.
> 
> I've also heard the 6309 is very rare and very sensitive to static, etc., and 
> of course I would have to cut out my 6809 to avoid destroying my motherboard 
> (my soldering skills stink) but I was thinking of installing a double speed 
> upgrade, so I'll have to do that anyway. I just don't want to spent all that 
> time and money installing a new os and a chip that will go up in smoke the 
> first time the cat walks by. It seems like a 32 mhz clock crystal (2.0/4.0 
> mhz) would do the same thing, and be less sensitive, but what about 
> compatibility?
> 
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