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From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
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Subject: Re: Additional CPUs (was: A rough future for the Amiga???)
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Date: 10 Apr 90 16:37:45 GMT
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In article <19543@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>
>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.

Hardly analogous. The IIfx comes with its coprocessors on board, whereas
the 2090 (which works pretty poorly anyway, from what I hear) costs
extra $$$, and certainly isn't standard equipment.  This hardly invalidates
Apple's claim...

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Don DeVoe
ddev@epsl.umd.edu