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From: sam@ms.uky.edu (Michael W. Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Additional CPUs (was: A rough future for the Amiga???)
Message-ID: <14895@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 17:35:53 GMT
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ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:

>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...

It isn't standard equipment an a regular A2000, just like the extras of the
IIfx aren't standard on a regular Mac II.  The 2090 (and now 2091) ARE, however,
standard equipment on higher end amigas.  (And the 2091 is a great improvement
over the 2090 anyway.)