Fast new personal computers

Abstract

Readers familiar with computers will recall that the timing of the central processing unit of a computer is controlled by a clock, and that transfers of data can take place during a single tick of this clock. For example, the clock of an IBM/PC/AT computer, which uses an 80286 processor chip, runs at eight million ticks per second (8 MHz), and the clocks of many other personal computers run at half that speed.

Citation

Falk, H. (1988), "Fast new personal computers", The Electronic Library, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 222-224. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044808