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- From: mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 16MHz A3000 to 25MHz (!) Hardware "Hack"
- Message-ID: <13217@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:18:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.151140.58087@cc.usu.edu> <713678050.3386.0@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Followup-To: Comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- In article <713678050.3386.0@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu> cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Dalton) writes:
- >Why did C= not socket the CPU?
-
- Motorola themselves, in a recent 680x0 family seminar I
- attended last week, were pushing the surface mount packages
- for nearly all of their future product offerings. The only
- exceptions would be their highest performance parts aimed
- at less cost sensitive markets. Even now, the surface mount
- part is often much less expensive than the PGA; sometimes
- less than 1/2 as much. CBM were saving A3000 owners tens
- of $$ of manufacturing cost by using the SMT 68030.
-
- Surface mount sockets are available. Like all sockets, but
- much more so, they add cost, decrease reliability, and
- consume extra board real estate.
-
- >Is the 3000 a disposable amiga like the A600?
-
- CBM included a CPU slot in the A3000 to ensure that it
- remains evergreen under evolving technology. This is much
- more than many vendors.
-
- Following the lead of your last comment, I have re-directed
- the followup-to line.
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