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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: '030 upgrade for Mac+(repost)
Message-ID: <137926@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 90 16:34:51 GMT
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In article <12896@shlump.nac.dec.com>, long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
> 
> In article <11176@pucc.Princeton.EDU> RSBONDI@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
> 
> >Warning!! Warning!! This is what I thought until I called Dove
> >about their $500.- '030 board (MacConnection price).  Turns out
> >you do not get an appreciable speed increase at all: all the board
> >is good for is PMM - and if that were all I wanted, I personally
> >would buy some cheap RAM and the Virtual INIT instead.  As far
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Umm...  you'll have to run that by me again.  If you have a Plus or SE (as I
> assume you do; otherwise, why the interest in the Dove board?), buying Virtual
> won't get you a thing--you've got to have the MMU.

According to my copy of Motorola's "MC68030 Enhanced 32-Bit Microprocessor
User's Manual", section 9, the '030 has the MMU built in.  The FPU, too.

Admittedly, the '020 needs an MMU to work with Virtual.

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