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- From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
- Message-ID: <copes.716190993@marsh>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:56:33 GMT
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- mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
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- >copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
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- >>BTW, does the C= 040 board have an external cache and any ram on board? The
- >>latest AmigaWorld I could find here was July.
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- >The 68040 board does not have CACHE or RAM on it. It is designed to not
- >cause any extra wait-states to the motherboard (which is not easy since
- >the 68040 bus has to be converted to the 68030 bus within the timing
- >window of the 68040 cycles...)
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- Then is the new CPU commands EXTERNALCACHE option for future use, or are
- there some 040 cards that have one? If I find a job over the break I will be
- buying one, but I don't know which. I would REALLY like a MERCURY 33Mhz card
- but it could be REAl expensive down here. The 25Mhz version is around A$3500,
- I'd hate to price the 33.
-
- >/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
- >| /// Michael Sinz - Senior Amiga Systems Engineer |
- >| /// Operating System Development Group |
- >| /// BIX: msinz UUNET: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com |
- >|\\\/// |
- >| \XX/ "I think not." said Ren'e Descartes, then he vanished. |
- >\----------------------------------------------------------------------/
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