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Article #2265Re: CMI MC68000 Processor Accelerator Board
From: Hal Meeks
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 17:59
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 17:59
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The CMI Board has been available for the Amiga for about a year now. Reviews on it have been mixed. I don't know anything about the atari version, but the Amiga version has a socket for the math coprocessor. Unfortunately, they are handling it in a non-standard way, so no commercial software I can think of supports it. However, the potential speedup for math intensive routines is somewhere in the neighborhood of 20%. Hopefully the atari version has the support, and can be used easily. Otherwise, expect the speedup to be less than overwhelming; 15% tops. Of course, all of this is based on my knowledge of the Amiga version. Reader beware. --hal
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!ncsuvm.bitnet!netoprhm From: NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: CMI MC68000 Processor Accelerator Board Message-ID: <821NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> Date: 6 Jul 89 17:59:31 GMT References: <8906282337.aa17560@BRL-VGR.APG-EMH5.APG.ARMY.MIL> <794@uhnix2.uh.edu> Organization: North Carolina State University - Computing Center Lines: 13