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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 07:23:02 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
- Message-ID: <4d528m$nlh@dole.uninett.no>
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- Bernd "Bernie" Meyer (root@wombat.hanse.de) wrote:
- : 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....
-
- First of all, nice to see you again Bernd - to bad I'll
- be gone in a couple of days. :)
- Second, I saw you included my sig up there although I didn't
- write the above.
- So, to the matter.
- Why is the EC030 a bad choice for the A1200+?
- Prot. mode and MMU wont be necessary until the new OS anyway.
- Do you have a better idea?
-
- : >: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....
-
- Nope, I'll all be included on the accelerator card.
- The only part which might suffer a bit is the internal
- IDE interface. But by then, you'll probably go with the
- on-board FSCSI-II anyway.
- Cheers...
-
-