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- From: wirth@igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 16MHz A3000 to 25MHz (!) Hardware "Hack"
- Message-ID: <1443@igd.fhg.de>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 07:15:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.151140.58087@cc.usu.edu> <713678050.3386.0@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu> <9526@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
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- In article <9526@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
- >In article <713678050.3386.0@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu> cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Dalton) writes:
- >>>
- >>Why did C= not socket the CPU?
- >
- >Because it gives you 1. more space on the board, 2. much more reliability
- >(think about all those A500's booting into a green screen because of
- >socket problems with Agnus), and not as least 3. considerably less cost.
-
- Luckily, C= managed to solder in the processors the right way round. This is
- definetely *not* the case with the pullup resistor packs on the A2630.
- Maybe they should have been socketed :-( The cost of turning them round re-
- mains with the *dissatisfied* customer.
-
- >
- >--
- >Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions...
- >Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
- > or peterk@public.sub.org
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- Greetings,
-
- Hanno
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