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In article <4572@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <3127@sdsu.UUCP>, larryr@sdsu.UUCP (Larry Riedel) says:

>> I am thinking about getting that 14MHz 68000 thing from CMI, but I am
>> wondering if the extra clock speed will be wasted. 

>All of the Amiga speedup boards run the Expansion Bus memory at it's
>normal speed.  They do speed the system up, but they only run faster
>in the following cases:
>
>	- Internal CPU operation
>	- Cache hit
>	- Access to special fast memory
>
>.  A plain fast
>68000 with no on-board memory designed specifically for it will only
>get the first benefit.


I don't know about the CMI board, but some 68000 speedup boards have
floating point processor sockets.  If you use it, and are running 
programs with a lot of FP computation that support it, you should
get a dramatic speed increase, yes/no? 

If you do a lot of floating point stuff (and a lot of graphics programs do),
it sounds like a lot more bang for the buck compared to a 68020 board
with coprocessor at ~$1000 more (plus 32 bit memory to get a real advantage
over the 68000).

-don perley