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Re:Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core bea... by pvg on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:40PM (#25120051)
This made me realize that Zip chips were a lot more complicated than kid-me thought:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_accelerators#Zip_Chip...

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Re:Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core bea... by rbanffy on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:48AM (#25122219)
Those things were amazing engineering. Someone's probably making something like it for the retrocomputing crowd.

With current tech it should be trivial to keep all of the RAM in the module and just asynchronously push some writes out (video and IO) at Apple II speeds.

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