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What's with this? busarch is broken. FireflyST (talk) 00:24, 16 May 2007‎

Clock speed / cycle time

So, as we discovered with PDP-8/PDP-8/S, 'clock speed' can be confusing, since some machines take a basic clock and immediately divide it down, thereby giving an incorrect sense of their speed. 'cycle time', although similarly varying in meaning from machine to machine, is at least one step up the architectural ladder, and thus more likely to be a compare-able measure of the machine's speed.

I have left the old 'clock speed' parameter, so we won't have to run around and change every place that uses this, but either will show the caption 'cycle time'. Jnc (talk) 14:22, 22 August 2019 (CEST)

There has been a query about dropping 'clock speed'. Maybe we should have both? What do people think? Jnc (talk) 14:11, 24 August 2019 (CEST)

OK, no feedback, so I'll go ahead and add it, on the principle that more info is never bad. Jnc (talk) 13:50, 25 August 2019 (CEST)