My question to everyone who owns an XL machine

[Sean39]

Hi everyone

 

 

This is to anyone who owns an XL,or XE machine. Does the Freddie chip make any difference in the machine,or is

it just another chip that seems to take up space in the computer and does nothing to improve the perfromance of the computer.

 

 

 

 

 

Sean

[+Ransom]

Freddie is a RAM access multiplexer.

 

Here's a short article on it: Atari Freddie

[Urchlay]

Short answer: it doesn't make any difference to you, as a user.

 

Long answer: it's a custom chip that replaces several other chips from earlier revisions of the 800XL... which brings the part count down (and presumably the per-unit cost). It doesn't add any new features, but it might mean you have to use a different 256K RAM upgrade than a non-Freddie XL would use (not sure about that, but if you're ever considering doing a RAM upgrade, you might want to find out).