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- From: ieeu0025@cs.montana.edu (Craig Keenan)
- Subject: Re: VXL-30 ramboard
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.220448.6654@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
- References: <1992Sep7.210127.10887@coe.montana.edu> <65472@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:04:48 GMT
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- This is a pain not a good. If you want more memory in your board, you have to
- take out and trash or sell at a loss 2mb of memory you already own! that is not
- good. If they were crafty they should have used the 1X4s (dense chips) and
- had a jumper to select 2,4, or 8 megabyte configurations. That way someone
- could just add more memory to the existing memory and take no losses. Also,
- word to the wise...don't buy the vxl-30 accl. with the 68882 in it, it is not
- worth it. just buy the fpu-less board then insert a 68881 which you can buy
- for a song.
-
- Here are also some of the specs of the VXL-30 which I wish I would have had:
-
- 68030 25/40/or I believe 50 MHz (note: you can install a 25,40,or 50 MHz
- processor in any of these boards)
-
- 68882 at 25 MHz but you can install any 68882/1 at 50 MHz or below (does not
- have to match cpu)
- can access 32bit ram in 68000 mode
-
- note: the 40Mhz is the mmuless EC version
-
- -C Keenan ieeu0025@anim.ee.montana.edu
-
- --------------------------------------------------------
- specs from the vxl-30 "manualette" included
- with the hardware
- - also, the cup can be run from 16 to 50 Mhz
- - about the 68881 tip, Microbotics suggests this in the documentation of the
- accelator and note that the 68881 is only 10% slower the the '882, the one
- they sell!
- ...nuff said.
-
-