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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dove Marathon 030 at $449 -- a good deal?
Message-ID: <4228@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 90 16:08:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.144233.6988@ee.rochester.edu> <193@pacvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <193@pacvax.UUCP> matt@pacvax.UUCP (Matt Kingman) writes:
>The Marathon 030 *is* an accelerator.  It's a 16Mhz 68030.  It uses the 
>memory that's already in your Mac and for those of you with SE's that use 
,,,

I just called them yesterday.  I was terribly disappointed.  They make and 
sell the marathon 020, which can use the motherboard memory, use it as a 
fast rom buffer, or disable it.  It then can accept either up to 4 or 8 MB
in board.  Sounds great and is nice and fast too.  But their applications
person told me they were just about finished with the 020 and they the 030 
was a much better deal.  No rom buffering, only the old (slow) system memory,
and it's limitations, and the virutual option that uses tha hard disk for
swap space.
   So, I called up Mac Products and bought a RailGun 030 25 Mhz for $ 800.
It will take the coprocessor too.
al