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- From: skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank)
- Subject: Re: Future A4000 Demos
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Nov2.085513.27406@daimi.aau.dk> <1903@lysator.liu.se> <Bx657K.MBr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 13:16:24 GMT
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- In article <Bx657K.MBr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK)) writes:
- >In article <1903@lysator.liu.se> marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- >>Faster blitter? At last? Are you sure about that? What processor does
- >>the A1200 have?
- >
- >A 68EC020. The only diff between an EC020 and a regular 020 is that
- >the economy version doesn't support an MMU (who cares on a 1200? I don't
- >think anyone will be running UNIX on it) and only 24 address pins.
- >(This could be a problem.) That only allows 10MB of main memory.
-
- The "EC" in 68EC020 stands for, "Embedded Controller." The blitter is
- identical to the one in the A4000. Except for the fact that the 4000 has
- Zorro III slots and a 68040, the 4000 and the 1200 are almost identical.
- Much like the 500 and the 2000. Though I think the 1200 sounds a good
- deal more expandable than the 500 was. You couldn't easily put a new
- processor in the 500 like you can in the 1200.
-
- --George
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