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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 09:20:20 GMT
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- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") wrote:
- >> I guess I could live with an EC if I could pop the pathetic effort out
- >> at any time and replace it with a proper processor - without the need
- >> for a third-party card.
- >
- >No doubt if they're so worried about the extra cost of a MMU 030 over the
- >EC030, they'll also have saved the 'unnecessary' cost of the CPU socket
- >and surface-mount the EC030 onto the motherboard (as they did with the
- >4K030)
-
- As long as it has a slot for the PPC upgrade, I`ll be happy. I have an
- A4000/EC030 and I`m probably not going to upgrade the cpu except to a PPC
- machine, but that leaves me with a cpu card that I can`t use (unless they`ll
- give me some money off for it!). This inclines me towards buying a PPC machine
- in it`s own right, but since they will not be available util 1997, I`m
- interested in this "March Amiga". The surface mount EC030 is OK by me since
- I`ll just be adding a PPC card as and when they arrive.
-
- However, it would be a severe waste of cpu MIPS if the EC030 was disabled when
- the PPC was added (as is the case with A1200 accelerator boards at the moment),
- but I can live with losing 1.2 MIPS (020) from the system. Could anyone live
- with losing 6-7 MIPS from the system?
-
- The Mac had a system where two cpus could be used together when the main cpu
- was augmented by a second cpu (i.e. where an 030 was on the main board and an
- 040 card was added). If AT could engineer this I would be VERY impressed.
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