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by pvg 2049 days ago
This made me realize that Zip chips were a lot more complicated than kid-me thought:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_accelerators#Zip_Chip...

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Those things were amazing engineering. Someone's probably making something like it for the retrocomputing crowd.

With current tech it should be trivial to keep all of the RAM in the module and just asynchronously push some writes out (video and IO) at Apple II speeds.