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- From: aTmosh@amiga.ow.nl (Thomas Tavoly)
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
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- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 21:14:24 GMT+2
- Organization: Wait a minute, maybe I can find where I wrote that down..
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- In article <DL0M6G.1GH@wombat.hanse.de> root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer) writes:
- > lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen) writes:
- >
- > >Thomas Karlsen (sledge@algonet.se) wrote:
- >
- > >: The best choice would be to have the A1200+ equipped with an 40Mhz EC030
- > >: chip
- >
- > Yeah, great. Say goodbye to protected memory and virtual memory. And to
- > good floaing point performance....
-
- Why? The current A1200 does not have MMU or FPU either. The OS is not laid
- out to fully use memory protection or virtual memory either. FPU is not
- used by many programs, except raytracers and the like. People with those
- requirements have a higher spec Amiga or according accelerator board
- anyway. It is a good (marketing) choice until the PowerAmiga arrives.
-
- > And I bet you'd just LOVE to have a PPC with some sort of horrendous glue
- > logic to make it look like an 030 to the rest of the world.
-
- An 040 actually, with Phase 5's 68k emulator software. It will make the
- A1200 faster by some factors anyway, and that's what matters.
-
- > Which means
- > 32 bit data paths. And unless you include it on the add on module, no
- > cache. GREAT performance is to be expected from a RISC CPU with horrible
- > memory badnwidth....
-
- What would you rather have for a stop gap 'til 97: An A1200 that's 4-8
- times faster or an A1200 that comes a year later with redesigned chipset,
- OS and lost compatibility that's 16 times faster?
-
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