A2620/30

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From: the Wizard of Speed and Time
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 22:26

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I have almost decided to buy either an A2620 or A2630 accelerator board.
My current setup:
A2000 w/Super Agnus and 1 meg chip RAM
4 meg of fast RAM
HardFrame/2000 SCSI controller

(1) Will the A2620 allow you to boot off the 68000?  What about the A2630?

(2) Can KickStart ROM be copied to the 32 bit ram on the A2620?  What about
    the A2630?

(3) How much faster (overall, graphics, hard drive I/O,
    and math grinding) is the A2620 compared to my A2000?   How about
    the A2630 compared to my A2000?  The A2630 compared to the A2620?

(4) What kind of RAM does the A2620 use?  The A2630?  How hard is it to find?
    How hard to install?

(5) If I someday ever want to run Amiga UNIX, can I run it with an A2620?
    How about with an A2630 (assuming I get a big enough hard drive,of course)?

(6) Can I put hard drive buffers in 32bit ram?  Right now I can put hard drive
    buffers in my fast ram.

(7) Does the 32bit RAM autoconfig?

(8) will the A2620 be able to access my 4 meg of fast ram?  What about
    the A2630?

(10) is there any way to force a program to be placed in 32 bit RAM?
     can you force a program into 16 bit RAM?

That's all for now - but if you can think of other information, please
pass that along too.

Thanks!


--
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Subject: A2620/30
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