Subject: Re: Overclocking the MIPS
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/19/2000 12:52:51
> Since 25 MHz really isn't a very impressive clock frequency nowadays, is it
> possible to overclock the 3MAX or the MAXINE in a way comparable to that of
> consumer PCs, and is there any gain?

If speed-gain is expected by crystal swap or processor swap, I pose
deep skeptics.  Building new CPU daughter cards for MAXINE/3MIN or
3MAX+ by reverse-engineering sounds more promising because it's
designed to allow swap isolating processor module from others.

Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Tohru Nishimura