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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 05:34:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Tor Rune Skoglund (torrunes@pil.idt.unit.no) wrote:
-
- : In article <4jm4lr$eqd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- : Brent Busby <claevius@firefly.prairienet.org> wrote:
- : >Really?? Will it work well in an A3000T? How stable is it? (I seem to
- : >remember hearing something about an Apollo '060 board, but I got the
- : >impression somehow that it was for the A2000.)
-
- : First I want to clear ut a minir misunderstanding: Not EDO, but ED -
- : Enhanced DRAM. This is said to be the memory achitechture for the
- : future. Simply explained, it is DRAM with integreted cache, which will
- : speed up memory accesses by 50%, according to Apollo - a lot more than
- : EDO DRAM.
-
- : Yes, the Apollo 3060/3040/4040/4060 supports EDRAMs.
-
- How easy is it to buy this? I know it will be expensive memory, but
- how hard is it to get EDRAM...? (And how expensive is it?)
-
-
- : The A3040/3060/4040/4060 is basically the same board, the 30x0 boards
- : has only two SIMM sockets due to less space in the A3000. (Although we
- : have customers which have installed the 4000 versjon with 4 SIMM
- : sockets in the A3000, too....)
-
- I have an A3000T. I've heard about how you have to remove your vertical
- drive bay mounts if you wanted to put a Mark-I CyberStorm with the I/O
- Module in an A3000T (and how it wouldn't fit at all in the A3000D), but
- how would an Apollo fit in there? Would I be able to use the 4060 version
- of the board in an A3000T without having to do a hacksaw job on by drive
- bays? And how is it on stability (CPU stability with the '060, SCSI
- protocol conformance, memory problems...??)?
-
-
- : As I sayd above, YES, it is A3000(T) compatible and it is available on
- : th marked since January. It is also possible to buy a 040-version and
- : upgrade it to 060 later. The same board has a socket which can take
- : 060 too.
-
- Sounds great! So all I need to know is whether the 4060 version will fit
- okay in an A3000T and whether the CPU, memory, and SCSI subsystems of the
- board are stable in real world use... Any comments anyone...?
-
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