IIGS Acceleration Idea

Hi,
I understand why you can't simply run a IIe machine at, say, 16 MHz.
Everything about the machine is so timing-dependent that if you try to
change the speed things get real ugly real fast. So the solution for most
IIe accelators was to use caching. All the computation could be done fast in
cache, but the chip would have to slow down when talking to the apple II
bus. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
Fast forward to the Apple IIgs. The same principle of getting a speed
increase through caching could be scaled up to work with the new hardware.
In the interest of getting a product to market in a timely fashion most of
the same concepts appeared in IIgs accelator cards.
When reading threads concerning cloning the TWGS, I thought after alomst
two decades of computer progress there has to be a better way.
A stock GS has a "slow" mode at about 1 Mhz and a "fast" mode at 2.8
MHz. What is preventing us from simply making this "fast" mode something
like 10 MHz? I don't know enough about the IIgs hardware to actually suggest
that this is possible, but I figure that you guys around here could give an
answer far better than any book or website.

Thoughts, ideas, ridicule?

-Greg


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