🚀 go-pugleaf

Ah, but there's always more news!  I've recently been building some
stuff with the other 'newest' in the 683xx line, the 68349.  THIS is
probably the one you want for the next round of MM/1 upgrades - because
it's CHEAP and REALLY fast for the price. It has:

- CPU030 core (the fixed point engine from the 68030) - about 15K dhrystones
  at 25 MHz and fast static rams, about 12K dhrystones with 80ns DRAMs.
- 2 serial channels
- 2 32-bit DMA channels
- dynamic bus sizing
- timers
- configurable instruction cache (max 1k)  note: the 68030 only has 256 bytes
  of I-cache
- memory controls (programmable chip selects)

etc.

You can think of it as similar to the 68340 configuration, only with the
cpu upgraded from a 68020 to a 68030, and the DMA channels are 32 bits
wide rather than 16 (and some other goodies).

The good news is that it is only a few dollars more (I can't quote) than
a 68340!  While it's a little bigger than a 68340, it's not much bigger
- it's a 160 pin QFP.  I have 2nd-pass silicon with OS-9 running on it and it's
ROCK SOLID.  This is some proven technology, folks, and at this price,
you can bet you'll be hearing a lot about it.

Have fun.

Ed


Edward M. Tuggle, Jr.
System Architecture and Evaluation
IBM Personal Computer Company

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