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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 01:46:03 +0000
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 1:27:19 +0000, Torbjorn Lindgren wrote:

>
> Notice the common factor here - MT/Commodore was making a lot of
> "working but only barely" chips and Commodore used them internally to
> save money and also sold them to others which used them because, well,
> they were frequently the cheapest.

Radio Shack TRS-80 would buy every Z80 that did not make 2MHz
operating frequency. They used something around 1.87 MHz so the
CPU clock and the TV clock were the same clock.