Is it? Does anyone know why the wait states were there in first place? Surely not because some engineers said, "Ok, folks, let's make the product a bit slower so it sells better".
The Engineers did not run Commodore. Mehdi Ali did. And Mehdi Ali said stupid crap like that all the time.
I assume that Dave simply did not have 1 or more of the following: [the time, the energy, the skill or the permission] to improve the design and eliminate the wait states.
Most (possibly all) other accelerator cards do not have a bunch of unneeded extra wait states thrown in and they all work just fine.
Surely, we have nowadays faster RAM and faster logic, but can this be applied on this card? Likely not. Thus, I would probably give that a second thought and wonder what exactly the wait states are good for.
If someone removes the wait states and can then prove that it causes some sort of problem then I would love to hear about it.
As for me, if this had been available in the years 1992-1997 then I would have bought it instantly as I was rocking an A4000/040 back in those days and I always hated that my hardware was performing at a level less than perfection.
