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- From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
- Subject: Re: A1200 - 68020EC ??
- Message-ID: <Bz47A8.70G@news.cs.andrews.edu>
- Keywords: A1200 68020EC 68EC020
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- References: <1992Dec11.093004.10703@walter.cray.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:49:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.093004.10703@walter.cray.com> walterb@sequoia.cray.com (Walter Boese Jr.) writes:
- >
- >What does the 'EC' in 68020 mean foe the Amiga A1200.
-
- The EC in the 68EC020 is the EConomy version of the 68020.
-
- >How can you economize (sp) a chip that is pretty basic to begin with?
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- By removing the MMU.
-
- >What great features can you remove?
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- The MMU.
-
- >And if they did remove something, WHY? The 68020 is getting outdated
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- WHY? To reduce cost.
-
- >already, why degrade more than its age already has?
-
- It has not been degraded. When the 68020 was made, the 68EC020 was also
- made. Not because Motorolla wanted to degrade a chip but to produce a
- Microprocessor that is powerful for many applications that did not need the
- Memory Management Unit. After all why would manufacturers buy an expensive
- chip if they aren't going to use the features that they paid for.
-
- >
- >Walter Boese Jr.
- >walterb@sequoia.cray.com
- >
- >
-
- Just my $0.02 worth. Don't take this as gospel. This is just what I gather
- from the random information I get from the net.
-
- Edsel
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