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From: horalek@Alliant.COM (Jim Horalek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A2000 vs A3000
Message-ID: <3976@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:59:56 GMT
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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  Now that the A3000 is out I'm feeling jealous.  My lowly A2000
only has a 68000 and a 16bit bus.  I pose the following, could
the ZorroIII bus be supported on the A2000?  Suppose some company
such as GVP designed an accelerator board which provided a way to
generate the necessary circuitry to make the ZorroII bus ZorroIII.
What generates the Buss signals; one of the custom chips?  Are the
custom chips in the A3000 in anyway compatible with the A2000?
Perhaps future A2000's should have a way to get to a ZorroIII buss.
Anyone thought about replacing the A2000 motherboard with an A3000
motherboard?  I know the A3000 motherboard has fewer slots but maybe
this might be one upgrade path.

  Jim
 .nosig