Subject: Re: Motorola cpus and swappability
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@funhouse.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/09/1996 19:37:22
> So, I'm not sure where the "internally clock-doubled" notion comes from :-)
It comes from the fact that the 68K family has always (well, 030 and up I'm
sure) operated the processor clock (PCLK) from twice the bus clock (BCLK),
I think by simply clocking with both edges of BCLK. Once Intel's hype made
people forget that their clock-doubling gimmick was an apology for inadequate
motherboard designs and thus "clock-doubled" became a positive marketing
buzzword, Motorola types started using the phrase to cover the PCLK/BCLK
relationship, even though there's no PLL synthesizing PCLK from BCLK.