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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 18:53:57 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : >>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.
-
- Depends, one shoe doesn't always fit all, especially the EC versions versus the
- full versions.
-
- : >As long as it has a slot for the PPC upgrade, I`ll be happy. I have an
-
- : Yes!
-
- Would have to be a cpu card, at least a daughterboard for pinout reasons.
-
- : >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.
-
- Wouldn't be possible with native PPC code in the OS. Unless you want to use
- different hard drive partitions with different versions of the OS on it.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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