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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1200 with '040 ?
- Message-ID: <10093@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:46:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.172702.3226@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- Keywords: 1200
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- In article <1992Nov16.172702.3226@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> ajs@news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Satterthwaite) writes:
- >
- >but I was wondering wether it would
- >be possible to plug a 68040 into an A1200. I realise it may need a host board
-
- Yes. But that's a viable option.
-
- >or something but surely it wouldn't be that difficult for GVP or someone
- >to come up with something, and as it wouldn't need extra 32 bit memory (as
- >the A1200 has got it already) it should be fairly cheap compared to A500/2000
- >'040 accelerators.
-
- Hmm, but an 040 without own Fast RAM would sound really crippled, you know
- that access to Chip RAM is sort of speed limited. No, you definitely would
- want some RAM on that processor board.
-
- > Is this a daft idea, or is it a possibility ...
-
- Yes, definitely. This is exactly what the trapdoor expansion is thought for.
- But I can't guess about prices, sorry.
-
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