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- From: hobart@rain.org (Kirk Hobart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: 68060 CPU acts flaky, is it buggy?
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:39:28 GMT
- Organization: Disorganized
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- is21@bton.ac.uk (Iakovos Stamoulis (Jacques)) wrote:
- >Ola Liljedahl (olli@enea.se) wrote:
- >: I have an MC68060 board for my Amiga 3000 computer, the Apollo 3060 board.
- >: The board/CPU acts flaky, especially (only?) when running computing intensive
- >: tasks, such as compiling large programs with gcc. There is no problem with
- >: heath, the CPU is almost cold. Could the problems be caused by an early
- >: CPU revision without the bugs worked out? (Guessing wildy here...)
- >
- >The problem may be with your amiga. Have you tried it on a A4000 ?
- >If you remember the A3000 would not accept all revisions of the 040 board
- >and probably your 060 board has the same problems.
- > Anyway, where did you got that accelerator from and how much was
- >it ? Also, How much faster is it from a 68040/25Mhz ??
-
- Just my $.02 here...
-
- I'm unfamiliar with Amiga products, but I've had no problems
- whatsoever with 68060s in my 50MHz embedded system design. I've used
- both ancient PC samples and very recent XC devices with equal success.
-
- The 68060-50 runs circles around my Pentium 90 desktop computer!
- _________________________________________________________
- Kirk Hobart Santa Barbara, California hobart@rain.org
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