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- From: jsheehy@netcom.com (John Sheehy)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <jsheehyDoHvzK.Dwu@netcom.com>
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- References: <jsheehyDo2FA3.FrH@netcom.com> <4988.6647T93T2611@mbox.vol.it> <jsheehyDoG3JF.4pG@netcom.com> <4ijvlb$mqb@serpens.rhein.de>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 03:21:20 GMT
- Sender: jsheehy@netcom19.netcom.com
-
- In article <4ijvlb$mqb@serpens.rhein.de>,
- Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de> wrote:
- >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.
-
- Well, (unless my memory is failing me) according to Dave Haynie, the way
- the 040 writes memory blocks is the problem. Anyway, there is an option
- to run this board off of the motherboard crystal and doing so does not
- speed up access to the motherboard.
-
- John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
-
-