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From:Alan Buxey
Date:14 Jun 2001 at 03:06:42
Subject:Re: A question

hi,

> When you put your accelerator in your Amiga1200 etc,
> is the onboard CPU dissabled completely? If it is why
> isn't it used to improve multitasking? Is it because
> of the hardware resource conflicts that would arise?

it is disabled, therefore it cannot be used. the address lines are taken
over and the timings are different.

this topic was quite common when the A1200 came out as the 020 was quite a
nice CPU at the time..so to have an 020 AND 030 running would have been
quite interesting

..what with 060's being > 50 times faster and PPC's being > 400 times
faster, people forgot about the onboard 020 8)

alan

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