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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
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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