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From: kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Additional CPUs (was: A rough future for the Amiga???)
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Date: 11 Apr 90 00:34:14 GMT
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   From: Don DeVoe <ddev@wam.umd.edu>
   Date: 10 Apr 90 16:37:45 GMT

   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...

not if you buy an A2000HD or A2500 ... [does the a2091 have an onboard
cpu?]...give me a break.  This is just squabbling over inconsequentials.
The IIfx has processors to do I/O control.  So, what do you think the
A2090/1 is doing?  


   --
   Don DeVoe
   ddev@epsl.umd.edu