[Coco] What would a CoCo successor have to have as a minimum?

[John Kent]

On 23/11/2010 11:31 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:
> If one wants to get pedantic, 8ns giving you 125MHz is only 4x faster 
> than 25MHz, not 5x faster.  Of course it is still more than enough 
> headroom for multiplexing the bus between video (accelerated or not) 
> and the CPU especially since there is nothing stopping you from giving 
> the video side 32 bit access even with no changes to the CPU.  The 
> memory connection in a CoCo 3 to the GIME is 16-bit enough to get 
> nearly the full bandwidth improvement, pure 8-bit access would have 
> been barely fast enough for the video side of things alone leaving 
> nothing for the CPU.
>
> If we are modifying the 6x09 CPU, I would like to see support for 24 
> or 32 bit addresses in the CPU and a true 16-bit ALU, and yes a wider 
> data bus would be nice too.  To support all this there would have to 
> be another CPU mode because at the very least it would mess up the stack.
>
Hi Alex,

Sorry ... I missed your comment.
Yes .. I put generics in System1609 that define the data width and 
address width

125MHz = 4 x CPU cycles + 1 x Video access cycle ?

JK

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