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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: Blizzard 1230IV how good ?
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- Message-ID: <DMAzM0.BD5@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:49:12 GMT
- References: <4eqhoj$nit@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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- In article <4eqhoj$nit@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
- fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >Well, heard things about some other board like "this board can't read odd adresses".
-
- No problem with the Blizzard.
-
- >Any known bugs on Blizzard 1230IV ? I guess it'll do 7mb/sec to chipmem.
- >Do the demos run on it ;)
- >
- >I guess I will still need reset1200 for my hd, but will IDE work
- >fine with the B1230IV ?
- >Will it get hot (I saw some dudes driving their turbo with opened case :)
-
- Yes it does get hot - but I don't this it's necessary to leave the cover
- off.
-
- >
- >I assume right it got 030-50 + MMU , able to swith it off and run on 020 ?
- >(if the 020 then could use the turbos fastmem, that would be a feature !)
-
- There is a facility to disable the board altogether on power-up/reset.
- This knocks out the CPU, RAM, etc.
-
- >Any cheaper alternative (above 40MHz + MMU) ?
- >what's the most used turbo ?
-
- Blizzard is currently the best price/power spec around IMHO.
-
- -FISH- ><>
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