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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 16:31:55 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4ijvlb$mqb@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <jsheehyDo2FA3.FrH@netcom.com> <4988.6647T93T2611@mbox.vol.it> <jsheehyDoG3JF.4pG@netcom.com>
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- jsheehy@netcom.com (John Sheehy) writes:
-
- >No, the problem is not *that* board. Most of the 040 boards talk to the
- >A3000 and A4000 inefficiently. The MB is designed for an 030.
-
- Which has nothing to do with the problem. A MB designed for 040 would
- only be marginally easier to use for 040 boards.
-
- >I have
- >the 28MHz GVP G-Force 040 A3000 (a real lemon, BTW), and it tests slower
- >than the 16MHz 030 on the MB in reading and writing to registers, chip
- >ram, the zorro bus, and fast ram on the MB.
-
- Obviously. This is because it runs asynchronously to the motherboard.
- A board running at 25MHz could access motherboard resources at nominal
- speed, wether it uses 030 or 040.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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