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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 09:52:31 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4i8q8v$fcm@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <9603060924.AA00108@ancient.demon.co.uk> <826276820.14613@hchworth.demon.co.uk> <4hu0b5$ouj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <1062.6644T1114T1508@netspace.net.au>
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- Summary: Swapping CPUs
- Keywords: CPU slot
-
- In article <1062.6644T1114T1508@netspace.net.au>,
- Paul Dossett <astroboy@netspace.net.au> wrote:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) said:
- >>In article <826276820.14613@hchworth.demon.co.uk>, Paul Chan <paul> wrote:
- >>>jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") 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.
- >
- >Why would they do this? It's impossible to simply swap CPU chips. They're
- >pin-incompatible and need different support hardware.
-
- Seeing as how a CPU slot is included this doesn't make any sense now I
- agree. Surface mounting would save them a tiny bit of money also.
-
- >--
- >Paul Dossett | EpiphoneYamahaPearlPaiste | Amiga 2000/040/17/365/3.1 __
- >-------------| Amiga owner since 1988! | Amiga CD32/020/10/200/3.1__///
- >Melbourne OZ | astroboy@netspace.net.au | 1976 Toyota Corolla 1.2 \XX/
-
- -=*George*=-
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