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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 18:20:04 GMT
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- >multiplexer. This external logic slows down cycles. However, modern
- >gate arrays are fast enough for the A3000/A4000 motherboard. But the
- >A3640, being an ancient design, uses PALs and discrete driver chips.
- Other 040's of the day ran faster. Thrid party 030 cards also ran faster than
- CBM's. Look at the old AmigaWorld real world speed comparisons of the CBM vs
- third party boards. On some test they were close, but on the Imagine ones, in
- particular, the CM cards performed horribly compared to the other cards.
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