Cheap 68030s

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 1990 14:17

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There is a chip called the 68EC030, which is basically a 68030 with the MMU
cut out (according to Tyler Sperry, editor of Embedded Systems Programming, it
looks like they had a batch of 68030s with broken MMUs and decided to sell
them as embedded controllers. Be that as it may...).

This would make a nice chip to put in a LUCAS-style board. It doesn't have an
MMU, but that's not a major problem in an Amiga. No, you can't play games with
moving the ROMs into protected RAM, but it should hum along just fine as an
accelerator.

I don't know how much cheaper this chip is, but it should be worthwhile to have
a look at it.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Cheap 68030s
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