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From: 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore New Products/Price Reductions COMDEX Announcements
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.172032.23894@aucs.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 89 17:20:32 GMT
References: <787@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <787@crash.cts.com> lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald) writes:
>papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>Last week at COMDEX Commodore announced new products and price reductions.
>>The following excerpts are taken from the press releases:
>>
>>New Amiga Peripherals:
>>---------------------
>>
>>* Commodore Amiga 2630
>>
>>A Motorola 68030-based accelerator, 25MHz MC68030,
>>25MHz MC68882 math co-processor, 68851 MMU, 2MB of
>>32-bit memory (expandable to 4MB)
>>Price: 		$2,195 
>>
>Hey Marco, is this one verbatim from a Commodore handout? Cause if it is,
>someone's brain ain't in gear! 
>
>68030  =  68020 CPU + BUILTIN 68851 MMU!!!
>
>Adding another '851 is a waste of silicon and board space!!
>
I'm afraid that you are the brain-dead one Larry

68030 = 68020 + SPEED + A SUBSET OF THE 68851 MMU
					 ^^^^^^

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