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- From: ahansfor@coal.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
- Subject: Re: 020 vs 030
- In-Reply-To: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au's message of 19 Aug 92 17:04:11 +1000
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:58:35 GMT
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- >>>>> On 19 Aug 92 17:04:11 +1000, bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au said:
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- bull> In article <1992Aug18.205027.912@pro-freedom.cts.com>, eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
- >
- > Another thing about the MMU, IMHO, is that lots of people are buying
- > cheaper accelerators that do not contain a MMU. Are these people
- > gonna be
- > disappointed about the time AmigaDOS v3.0 comes out or what?
- >
-
- Are they? Is 3.0 going to use the MMU for VM or MP? Maybe but it
- sounds like a rumor.
-
- bull> Not really. For the most part, the accelerators without an MMU
- bull> are usuing the EC030, which is just a normal 030 with it's MMU
- bull> disabled. Just pull out the EC030 and plug in a normal 030 and
- bull> you suddenly have your MMU. The only people who will have a
- bull> problem are the ones where the EC030 are soldered to the board,
- bull> and I don't know of any accelerator which has had that done to
- bull> it.
-
- Hmm. I heard that before. Good to see that the accelerators are
- socketed. Still an 030 is exactly cheap and some people just will not
- need to because they will not need to use VM, MP, or anything else the
- MMU provides.
-
- -- Andrew Hansford
- ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
-