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- From: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.4oWNqRisp5g@fredrik.atari.no>
- Organization: Atari Corp. Scand. AB (Norway)
- Subject: Re: Atari ST with 60Mhz 68040 on the Atari Messe
- References: <1992Aug24.095331.126411@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- <1992Aug25.125150.3387@aber.ac.uk> <tiemann.714777478@tardis61>
- <l9lhjkINN8i1@aludra.usc.edu>
- Reply-To: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 12:26:30 MET
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- In <l9lhjkINN8i1@aludra.usc.edu>, Juxtaposer writes:
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- A lot of stuff deleted
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- > That would be nice - but we'd have to bulk-order the 68040s to make
- >it anywhere feasable. They are _expensive_. BTW, this overdriving of the
- >'040 could have some potentially nasty effects - I believe that Motorola has
- >only released 33MHz spec. chips.
- >
-
- The 68040 do have an internal clock doubler, although Motorola does'nt make
- such a big fuzz about it. But using the Intel terminology in advertisment, the
- 68040/33Mhz would be a 68040/66Mhz (DXII) processor! I guess this is what the
- maker of this 68040 ST enhancement project has done....
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- / Joern F. Moe / All above is my own personal opinion! \
- / Oslo, Norway / Any lack of opinion above is also mine! \
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