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- From: kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: 68060 CPU acts flaky, is it buggy?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 10:51:24 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
- Message-ID: <4klcjc$kp4@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In article <316e1434.411058@news.rain.org>, hobart@rain.org (Kirk Hobart) writes:
- > 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!
-
- The trouble is with the Apollo board. In its present incarnation it's crap.
- I've bought one too and am waiting since Xmas for the company to fix it.
-