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Article #12852Re: '030 upgrade for Mac+(repost)
From: Steve Hix
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 1990 16:34
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 1990 16:34
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In article <12896@shlump.nac.dec.com>, long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>
> In article <11176@pucc.Princeton.EDU> RSBONDI@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
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> >Warning!! Warning!! This is what I thought until I called Dove
> >about their $500.- '030 board (MacConnection price). Turns out
> >you do not get an appreciable speed increase at all: all the board
> >is good for is PMM - and if that were all I wanted, I personally
> >would buy some cheap RAM and the Virtual INIT instead. As far
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Umm... you'll have to run that by me again. If you have a Plus or SE (as I
> assume you do; otherwise, why the interest in the Dove board?), buying Virtual
> won't get you a thing--you've got to have the MMU.
According to my copy of Motorola's "MC68030 Enhanced 32-Bit Microprocessor
User's Manual", section 9, the '030 has the MMU built in. The FPU, too.
Admittedly, the '020 needs an MMU to work with Virtual.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: '030 upgrade for Mac+(repost) Message-ID: <137926@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 27 Jun 90 16:34:51 GMT References: <12896@shlump.nac.dec.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 24