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- From: chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 Accelerators
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:57:33 GMT
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- Hi,
- IH> I Have finally decided to upgrade my A1200
- IH> I can't bring myself to spend the money for an 040 or 060
- IH> So I'm looking at 50MHz 030s.
- IH> The most obvious ones (in the UK at least) are
- IH> the BLIZZARD IV and VIPER 50 both with 8Mb of RAM
- IH> Has anyone any opinions or suggestions ?
- IH> How big a difference does 60nS RAM make to the BLIZZARD ?
- IH> Will a 50MHz 030 be slower at floating point than my
- IH> 28MHz 68882 ?
- IH> Thanks in advance
- IH> Ian H
-
- The Viper will disable your PCMCIA slot with >4mb RAM. I assume you're
- talking Viper II here, as the Viper I isn't made any more, but some places
- still are selling old stock. The Blizzard is more easily disabled
- (keystoke on bootup, Viper has jumpers)). I'd actually dump both of them and
- go for the Apollo 1230/50, as they *always* have an MMU (Whereas it's pot luck
- with the Viper) and the selling point for me is that they have 2 SIMM sockets.
- So you won't have to dump your SIMMs when you upgrade.
- Oh, and quoted speeds are 9.91 for the Blizzard and ~9.5 for the Apollo.
-
- Chris
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