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- From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 with 68EC040?
- Summary: Manual is correct
- Keywords: 68040 68ec040 manual
- Message-ID: <38787@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:31:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.071724.2050@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <C1Gxw1.E07@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- In article <C1Gxw1.E07@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
- >mark@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim) writes:
- >
- >>Hi,
- >
- >>I just bought an A4000. I was looking through the user's guide and it
- >>says.
- >
- >>"A4000 models shipped with a 68040-level microprocessor on the
- >>processor module may have the 68EC040 variation of the chip. The EC
- ^^^^^^^^
- >>chip omits the internal FPU and MMU present on the full 68040.
- >>..."
- [...]
-
- >>Are all current A4000's EC's or full 68040's?
- >>Does anyone know just how different they are? (besides no MMU)
- >
- >
- >Buddy, you got an 040. If you don't believe me, try removing the heat-sink
- >and look at the chip yourself. So far Commodore (in USA, at least) has
- >never sold an ec040 Amiga 4000.
-
- True so far.
-
- > The manual is wrong.
-
- The manual is not wrong. Is it so difficult for people to understand that we
- write manuals to cover as many *potential* shipping configurations as
- possible? What is it that causes otherwise literate individuals to read the
- words "may have" as "has"? If you are getting a cut-down processor, I think
- you'll be informed of it before you get the machine home and read the owner's
- manual.
-
- Sheesh.
-
- >>mark
- >>mark@killdeer.stanford.edu
- >
- >Yours Sincerely,
- >Kelvin
- >e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
-
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