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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 80 MIPS with Blizzard1260?
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 22:29:06 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
- Message-ID: <2477.6627T1372T2324@lustudat.student.lu.se>
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- In article "Re: 80 MIPS with Blizzard1260?" Ben Anderson said:
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- >>M. Krisell wrote:
- >>>
- >>> Hi everybody!
- >>>
- >>> I recently got a Blizzard1260 turbo board for my A1200.
- >>> I had a 33 Mhz 68030 before, and everything is MUCH
- >>> faster now. But...
- >>>
- >>> The manual says something about 80 MIPS, but according
- >>> to SysInfo my system does "only" 39 MIPS.
- >>> Could it be that my RAM isn't fast enough? I'm not
- >>> sure but I think it is only 80ns or even slower.
- >>> Will I get 80 MIPS if I get 60ns RAM?
- >>>
- >>> Magnus.
-
- >>Hi. Sysinfo has got a bug, well it┤s not a bug but it is old. The creator of
- >>sysinfo didn┤t had in mind that an Amiga faster then 39 MIPS would ever be
- >>released. I have got a Cyberstorm 060 and it makes 83 MIPS but SysInfo just
- >>show 39 MIPS.
-
- >>You have to get a program called "MIPS" to calculate the speed on your
- >>computer.
- >Macintosh: the etch-a-sketch you don't have to shake.
-
- >Can you actually buy the 1260? I thought it wasn't going to be released
- >untill the '060 chip was in full production. 83Mips! I want one. How much
- >did yours cost? In australia the only boards available are dkb's - and most
- >of the fast ones make the computer crash, freeze and stuff up every five
- >minutes. Do you have this problem with the blizzard? Do you have to have
- >the
- >1200 modified to get the board to work?
- > Please help me - I am getting to the point where the 1200 isn't worth
- >it. People produce software for the base models, which means people who
- >spend on faster don't get software that supports it. Look at the PC. A new
- >game comes out that someone cant run on their p100, so they upgrade to a
- >p166. Games should be written for the faster processors to provide incentive
- >(!) for people to upgrade.
-
- >TTFN.
-
- It's quite horrible... when I saw the first ads in AUI they said ú699!
- Hopefully, it should go down, or already has.
-
-
- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
- - Amiga since '89
- A1200 - Blizzard 1230IV/50/8Mb - 850Mb HD - Microvitec 1438
- Commodore :( PC20-III PSU ;) + Stereo, floppy, mouse, blahblah...
- Texas Instruments TI-85 & TI-92 graphing calculators
- nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se
- <tsb> Random tag line coming up...
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- to put a rightful king on a throne, no deed too base in defence of a crown.
- A romantic, in fact."
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