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- From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
- Organization: Private uucp site lost in the voids of the black hole Germany is in the Internet
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- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:49:28 GMT
-
- lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen) writes:
-
- >Thomas Karlsen (sledge@algonet.se) wrote:
-
- >: The best choice would be to have the A1200+ equipped with an 40Mhz EC030
- >: chip
-
- Yeah, great. Say goodbye to protected memory and virtual memory. And to
- good floaing point performance....
-
- >:and a Processor Direct Slot like in the A3000/A4000 models. Then you
- >: can install a 040 or a PPC if you like, when you like.
-
- And I bet you'd just LOVE to have a PPC with some sort of horrendous glue
- logic to make it look like an 030 to the rest of the world. Which means
- 32 bit data paths. And unless you include it on the add on module, no
- cache. GREAT performance is to be expected from a RISC CPU with horrible
- memory badnwidth....
-
- Bernie
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