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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 07:28:37 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4hu0b5$ouj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <9603060924.AA00108@ancient.demon.co.uk> <DnwA2r.81n@cix.compulink.co.uk> <826276820.14613@hchworth.demon.co.uk>
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- Summary: Surface mount and second CPU slot.
-
- In article <826276820.14613@hchworth.demon.co.uk>, Paul Chan <paul> wrote:
- >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)
-
- NO! They have to make it socketed so users can just pop the CPU out and
- replace it with a 68040 or 68060.
-
- >As long as it has a slot for the PPC upgrade, I`ll be happy. I have an
-
- Yes!
-
- >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.
-
- Even if you had to switch from one to the other, it would be nice.
-
- -=*George*=-
-