nsxwolf

It sounded like they were referring to the 256 byte "scratchpad" area, which was the only RAM available on the 16 bit bus. The rest was on the 8 bit bus, which meant the TMS9900 couldn't live up to its potential. Although, it seems like *that* was the bottleneck, not the 256 bytes of fast RAM. Did people really complain that much about the power supply? I know they would get warm, but it didn't seem like a problem that would doom a computer. Definitely not a scene I ever expected to see on television, though. It would have really been something if they'd included a TI-99/8 prototype on the conference table.

It sounded like they were referring to the 256 byte "scratchpad" area, which was the only RAM available on the 16 bit bus. The rest was on the 8 bit bus, which meant the TMS9900 couldn't live up to its potential. Although, it seems like *that* was the bottleneck, not the 256 bytes of fast RAM. Did people really complain that much about the power supply? I know they would get warm, but it didn't seem like a problem that would doom a computer. Definitely not a scene I ever expected to see on television, though. It would have really been something if they'd included a TI-99/8 prototype on the conference table.