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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Additional CPUs (was: A rough future for the Amiga???)
Message-ID: <19543@grebyn.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:21:07 GMT
References: <16192@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990Apr8.013940.12984@wam.umd.edu> <10715@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <10715@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <1990Apr8.013940.12984@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:
>>as follows: "...It is also the first personal computer to have two 
>>additional processors - with the power of two additional personal computers -
>>to manage the flow of information inside." Now consider: Do the Amiga's
>>blitter, copper, etc. themselves have the power of additional personal
>>computers???  Nope, they don't.  The IIfx uses, I believe, two 6502 to
>
>The Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 each have a 6502 as well as a 68000.

The keyboard CPU is a 6502? Hmm, this is not what I remember.  I thought
it was a 6802; certainly comparable.

If you have a A2090 or A2090A controller, you also have a Z80 CPU
working as an IO processor.  This is directly analagous to the Max
IIfx's IO coprocessors.